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fructify

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

It will be interesting to see the many wonders which will fructify from the works of these two modern "brothers" in Christ.

From Time Magazine Archive

She left Micky's apprehension to fructify, and told him to go back and get his supper.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

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

These special departments in the great domain of natural p 8 science are, moreover, capable of being reciprocally fructified by means of the appropriative forces by which they are endowed.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von

These calumnies fructified in the provinces, long since prepared to receive them.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

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




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