fertile
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Digital technology has long been fertile ground for new English idioms, with terms such as “reboot,” “bandwidth” and “downtime” entering the popular lexicon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"People are moving into areas where there's enough water to grow crops, and fertile soils, and those are the very areas that the elephants tend to use as well."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The samples also contained gold-to-copper ratios well above those measured in fertile mantle and primitive mid-ocean ridge basalts.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
This was a fertile environment for the proliferation of digital rapid-response networks at a time when they were most needed.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Many more vignettes illustrating this and other simple logical errors might be cited, but the point is clear enough: both innumeracy and defective logic provide a fertile soil for the growth of pseudoscience.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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