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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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.
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Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 29 May 2023
Sen worked in what was an extraordinarily fecund period for Bengali-language cinema, based in the eastern Indian film stronghold Calcutta (now Kolkata).
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 May 2023
There have been dozens more slamming the bureau for various transgressions, most of them figments of the fecund presidential imagination.
—Robert G. Kaiser, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
For example, France in the early 19th century was characterized by a situation of highly fecund Catholic immigrants arriving to reinforce the conservative Catholic faction among the native-born.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2010
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Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 29 May 2023
Sen worked in what was an extraordinarily fecund period for Bengali-language cinema, based in the eastern Indian film stronghold Calcutta (now Kolkata).
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 May 2023
There have been dozens more slamming the bureau for various transgressions, most of them figments of the fecund presidential imagination.
—Robert G. Kaiser, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
For example, France in the early 19th century was characterized by a situation of highly fecund Catholic immigrants arriving to reinforce the conservative Catholic faction among the native-born.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2010
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