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fertile

[fur-tl, -tahyl] / ˈfɜr tl, -taɪl /


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Food stocks provide fertile ground for this exercise.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

As Ms. Shevchenko’s partner and escort, Mr. Robare honored Balanchine’s fertile inventions with ease and expertise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

His narratives are often fertile ground for an eclectic mix of performers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Vermont, where I teach political science, did not look like fertile ground for Jackson when he first ran for president.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

So they’d had Lexie first, in 1980, then Trip the next year and Moody the year after that, and Mrs. Richardson had secretly been proud of how fertile her body had proved, how resilient.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng