as in fertile
producing abundantly
the Franklin stove, bifocals, and the lightning rod are just a few of the inventions that we owe to the fecund creativity of Benjamin Franklin
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Recent Examples of fecund
Others omit her altogether, capturing the natural realm unblemished by human presence, a fecund environment dotted with snakes and birds and fungi.
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Ana Karina Zatarain, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
Granting all perturbation and backsliding, generous lives had been lived on that fecund soil, and a generous spirit inhered in it.
—Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
This also happened to be one of the most creatively fecund periods in the city’s history.
—Ned Resnikoff, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
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.
—Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 29 May 2023
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Ana Karina Zatarain, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
Granting all perturbation and backsliding, generous lives had been lived on that fecund soil, and a generous spirit inhered in it.
—Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
This also happened to be one of the most creatively fecund periods in the city’s history.
—Ned Resnikoff, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
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.
—Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 29 May 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fecund
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Their investments have triggered a wave of innovation and attracted intense enthusiasm from venture capital, creating fertile ground for rapid technological evolution.—
Tim Bajarin,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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By the time the Leo New Moon arrives on the 24th, the second half of the week becomes fertile ground for visioning and rebirth.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
20 July 2025
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Last year with hours left to live, Roberson's life was spared following a furious effort by a bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers − a development rarely seen in the nation's most prolific death penalty state.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
18 July 2025
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Exxon, a 45 percent owner and operator of the three-company consortium which has developed the prolific Stabroek Block and other areas offshore Guyana over the last decade, filed a challenge to the arrangement in March 2024.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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“Fecund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fecund. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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