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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From the fecund mind of the Coen brothers, this modern-day Western was hailed as a classic nearly from the moment of its independent release.
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Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
Others omit her altogether, capturing the natural realm unblemished by human presence, a fecund environment dotted with snakes and birds and fungi.
—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
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Texas is one of the most fertile — and affordable — states to grow your business from the ground up, according to a new analysis that weighs startup costs, taxes and regulatory fees, among other factors.—
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Curitiba is the capital of the state of Parana which is nearly as large as Illinois and Indiana put together and equally as fertile.—
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Neither player is a prolific shot-maker from long range, but Green’s dwindling speed advantage is further lessened when he is guarded by power forwards rather than centers on dribble handoffs.—
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Rob Reiner was a prolific director whose work included some of the most memorable and endlessly watchable movies of the 1980s and ’90s.—
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“Fecund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fecund. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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