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infertility

[in-fer-til-i-tee] / ˌɪn fərˈtɪl ɪ ti /
NOUN
unproductiveness
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That’s despite the fact that nearly 1 in 6 people globally are estimated to experience infertility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

I was told it had healed diabetes sores, infertility, a frozen shoulder, and the common cold.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

The metabolic condition, which affects up to one in eight women, changes how the ovaries work and was linked to infertility and weight gain, the UK's NHS said.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

“My actual work promoting root-cause care for infertility received less airtime.”

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

In addition, Australia’s aridity, infertility, and climatic unpredictability limited its hunter-gatherer population to only a few hundred thousand people.

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

There they came suddenly upon a wide-spread sweep of turf, contrasting so brilliantly with the bygone infertilities that it seemed to them a paradise, and stretching clear on to the bluff of the pueblos.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest




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