fructify
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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
He was a Liberal, and a Free Trader, and a friend of O'Connell, and he had numerous ideas that he hoped would fructify to Ireland's gain, but he never had a real chance.
From The Viceroys of Ireland by O'Mahony, Charles
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
One of these was moreover in itself a curious and interesting chapter of observation, and it fructified, in Hawthorne's memory, in one of his best productions.
From Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) by James, Henry
Out of soil like this, permeated and fructified with such ideas, grew the Fourth Gospel.
From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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
They are immune to the fructifying quality of genius.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or rather, it was a productive and fructifying pain.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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