procreative

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Many investors have come to appreciate the relative stability offered by a commodity once dismissed by the billionaire Warren Buffett as "lifeless" and "neither of much use nor procreative".

From BBC • May 12, 2025

While he was a monk – not an environment renowned for procreative possibilities – he realised he wanted to have children.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2019

Otherwise, Eufinger wrote, “no certainty can ever be obtained as to the effective functioning of the procreative organs.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

Increasingly, scientists track how environmental changes can disturb the procreative dance.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2016

We shall see later on that the procreative instinct often plays an important role in our present civilization.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste