fertile

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Those monumental physical traces are to be found in the fertile plains, mountainsides and deserts of the Middle East.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

Roger de Bree, managing director and fund manager at Tweedy, Browne, invests with an eye for bargains, and sees Japan as a fertile place to invest.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

But a more recent study, “Sperm concentration remains stable among fertile American men” published in January, found no clinically significant decline in sperm concentration among American men between 1970 and 2018.

From Salon • May 15, 2026

But the land was fertile, and the Native Americans told of even richer soil to the east, ideal for encomiendas, as large Spanish-ruled plantations exploiting indigenous labor were called.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

—Gethenians tend to have their children young; most of them, after the age of twenty-four or so, use contraceptives, and they cease to be fertile in the female phase at about forty.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin