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bear fruit

verb as in bloom

verb as in unfold

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They can begin to bear fruit within just four years, and continue to do so for around 25 years.

Four years before that March day, Feili had published I Will Grow, I Will Bear Fruit…Figs.

Attempts to improve security by making it more difficult to bring weapons on base may bear fruit but face substantial hurdles.

All those efforts are great, and many of them are likely to bear fruit in the long-term.

Which is not to deny that some government investments can bear fruit.

Their branches describe a circle of more than eighty feet in circumference, but they no longer bear fruit.

In other countries, it is scarcely fifty feet high, and does not bear fruit before it is twelve or fifteen years old.

I have earnestly prayed that what I am about to say may bear fruit and I know that you will bless my word with a similar prayer.

I saw that the poison of anxiety had entered the girl's mind; and it might, perhaps, bear fruit of no engaging quality.

To carry out your metaphor of the tree, the graft cut from the parent stock must bear fruit for itself.

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On this page you'll find 191 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bear fruit, such as: blossom, germinate, grow, prosper, sprout, and thrive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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