fecund

Example Sentences

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With crackling pastoral language and thematic Lynchian undertones, “Swamplandia!” probed the growing tension in Russell’s home state of Florida between an endangered fecund wilderness and encroaching development.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

The idea, in theory, is that all of these economic policies, when combined with the party’s traditional social conservatism, will make it easier for regular working folks to thrive and be fecund.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2024

State officials say their own surveys put the figure at 0.89, a rate just above that of South Korea, the least fecund nation in the world.

From New York Times • May 29, 2023

Giant clouds like this are relatively rare but crank out stars on an industrial scale, while the smaller clouds are less fecund but litter the galaxy.

From Scientific American • Apr. 24, 2023

Under that nation’s politics and parades and passions runs an old darkness, passive, anarchic, silent, the fecund darkness of the Handdara.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin