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fructify

[fruhk-tuh-fahy, frook-, frook-] / ˈfrʌk təˌfaɪ, ˈfrʊk-, ˈfruk- /
VERB
fertilize
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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

The buyer, wanting its purchase to fructify, decided to transform the church into a farm building.

From Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album by Marie Lebert

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

The new arrangement permitted a better organization of the necessary bodily movements, fatigue was diminished, the accessory movements were better fructified, fewer inhibitions were necessary, a better playing together of the psychical energies was secured.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg

Between the two books all that he had seen and thought in Palestine lay in his mind, and grew there, and fructified for our understanding.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

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 sights and sounds of what she calls Hong Kong's "fructifying untidiness" are abundant and enthusiastically conveyed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or rather, it was a productive and fructifying pain.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison




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