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infertility

[in-fer-til-i-tee] / ˌɪn fərˈtɪl ɪ ti /
NOUN
unproductiveness
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“My actual work promoting root-cause care for infertility received less airtime.”

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

The known and suspected harms of these interventions include infertility, sexual dysfunction, cognitive impairment, cardiovascular disease, bone health problems and cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

And at this year's giant Fertility Show in London's Olympia, attended by around 2,000 people over two days, organisers said male infertility would be placed centre stage for the first time.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

Given that infertility affects 1 in 6 people, he says, “Society should treat fertility care as an equitable medical problem, the same way it treats other diseases.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

In addition, Australia’s aridity, infertility, and climatic unpredictability limited its hunter-gatherer population to only a few hundred thousand people.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

There they came suddenly upon a wide-spread sweep of turf, contrasting so brilliantly with the bygone infertilities that it seemed to them a paradise, and stretching clear on to the bluff of the pueblos.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)




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