fertile
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Digital technology has long been fertile ground for new English idioms, with terms such as “reboot,” “bandwidth” and “downtime” entering the popular lexicon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"People are moving into areas where there's enough water to grow crops, and fertile soils, and those are the very areas that the elephants tend to use as well."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The samples also contained gold-to-copper ratios well above those measured in fertile mantle and primitive mid-ocean ridge basalts.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
This was a fertile environment for the proliferation of digital rapid-response networks at a time when they were most needed.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Situated in the coastal plain of southwest Alabama, the fertile, rich black soil of the area attracted white settlers from the Carolinas who amassed very successful plantations and a huge slave population.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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