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infertile

[in-fur-tl, -tahyl] / ɪnˈfɜr tl, -taɪl /


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Tens of thousands of people, including infertile and same-sex couples, have had babies through the technological advances of in vitro fertilization and the willingness of surrogates to carry those children.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

Carrillo, 46, had been told by doctors years ago that she was infertile.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

It could help older women who are no longer have viable eggs, men who don't produce enough sperm or people whose cancer treatment has left them infertile.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

Carrying around little cups of sperm as political protest, to mock infertile people, is most likely a fake scandal, but not being able to have kids easily is rough.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024

Australia is by far the driest, smallest, flattest, most infertile, climatically most unpredictable, and biologically most impoverished continent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond