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fertile

[fur-tl, -tahyl] / ˈfɜr tl, -taɪl /


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"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

Gathering over 300 works, an expansive exhibition at the Grand Palais spotlights the artist’s creatively fertile final years.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

The Aesir were warlike gods of battle and conquest; the Vanir were softer, brother and sister gods and goddesses who made the soils fertile and the plants grow, but none the less powerful for that.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman




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