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“A perspicacious analyst might wonder whether talk of inflation, recession and other factors would fructify in a slower spending growth,” Moynihan said in an analyst call in 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

“Money,” Cowperthwaite said, should be left “to fructify in the pockets of taxpayers”.

From Economist ● Oct. 5, 2017

“We’re just starting to see that interest in the sport beginning to fructify now … this fight is bankable,” Nelson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2017

There was the old Gladstonian expression, 'Let the money fructify in the pockets of the people.'

From Time Magazine Archive

In the spring it recommences vegetation, and emits its branches into the newly-formed organs of its host, there to fructify.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

Those discussions fructified into the present partnership more than a year later.

From Forbes ● Jul. 4, 2013

Maybe it was the peace of land long inhabited, long farmed and fructified by human presence — land where humans and the earth had established a lasting friendship.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2012

It was American statesmanship that first threw out the idea which has fructified in the Dawes scheme.

From Time Magazine Archive

His method, in the attainment of this end, was rigid and pure observation, aided by experiment and fructified by induction....

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

It was pollen from Italy, but not Italy of the Middle Ages, that fructified English poetry in the sixteenth century.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

There were spawned out salmon on the banks, and the air smelled of fish in a marvelous fructifying funk that is the death that brings new life to the river.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

And “Better Things” kept going, fructifying into a closely observed and deeply felt portrait of one woman’s over-full life.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022

The soil is darker than coffee grounds, inky, sweet and redolent of fructifying forest funk.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022

The early Kandinskys, such as Light Form, were fresh and fructifying as spring thundershowers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or rather, it was a productive and fructifying pain.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison