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fructify

[fruhk-tuh-fahy, frook-, frook-] / ˈfrʌk təˌfaɪ, ˈfrʊk-, ˈfruk- /
VERB
fertilize
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“Money,” Cowperthwaite said, should be left “to fructify in the pockets of taxpayers”.

From Economist Oct. 5, 2017

“We’re just starting to see that interest in the sport beginning to fructify now … this fight is bankable,” Nelson said.

From Los Angeles Times May 3, 2017

It will be interesting to see the many wonders which will fructify from the works of these two modern "brothers" in Christ.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was the old Gladstonian expression, 'Let the money fructify in the pockets of the people.'

From Time Magazine Archive

And oh! may that use be, that they will make it fructify to their salvation.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by

Those discussions fructified into the present partnership more than a year later.

From Forbes Jul. 4, 2013

Maybe it was the peace of land long inhabited, long farmed and fructified by human presence — land where humans and the earth had established a lasting friendship.

From New York Times Apr. 6, 2012

It was American statesmanship that first threw out the idea which has fructified in the Dawes scheme.

From Time Magazine Archive

One day, about a fortnight afterwards, this hope fructified.

From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery, Jeffery E.

"More impossible ideas have fructified," agreed Ginger, rising.

From Men, Women and Guns by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

There were spawned out salmon on the banks, and the air smelled of fish in a marvelous fructifying funk that is the death that brings new life to the river.

From Seattle Times Oct. 10, 2023

And “Better Things” kept going, fructifying into a closely observed and deeply felt portrait of one woman’s over-full life.

From New York Times Apr. 25, 2022

The soil is darker than coffee grounds, inky, sweet and redolent of fructifying forest funk.

From Seattle Times Mar. 14, 2022

They are immune to the fructifying quality of genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or rather, it was a productive and fructifying pain.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison




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