fertile
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Shovel in the fact that some conspiracy theories have turned out to be at least semi-plausible—cue the drip-drip of UFO disclosures—and you have fertile soil for sprawling kudzu-like growth in the business of manufactured truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
As far back as 3500 B.C., the Sumerians, the original inhabitants of this area, mastered irrigation and flood control to create a fertile oasis amid the sandy plains of what is now Iraq.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
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