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fertile

[fur-tl, -tahyl] / ˈfɜr tl, -taɪl /


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"People are moving into areas where there's enough water to grow crops, and fertile soils, and those are the very areas that the elephants tend to use as well."

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Their vague sense of discontent makes potentially fertile ground for the seeds of spectacular success Nick is soon planting in their minds.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

The samples also contained gold-to-copper ratios well above those measured in fertile mantle and primitive mid-ocean ridge basalts.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

This was a fertile environment for the proliferation of digital rapid-response networks at a time when they were most needed.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

It may well be that ancient hunter-gatherers living in zones more fertile than the Kalahari spent even less time obtaining food and raw materials.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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