fecund
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With crackling pastoral language and thematic Lynchian undertones, “Swamplandia!” probed the growing tension in Russell’s home state of Florida between an endangered fecund wilderness and encroaching development.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025
The idea, in theory, is that all of these economic policies, when combined with the party’s traditional social conservatism, will make it easier for regular working folks to thrive and be fecund.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2024
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.
From New York Times • May 29, 2023
Giant clouds like this are relatively rare but crank out stars on an industrial scale, while the smaller clouds are less fecund but litter the galaxy.
From Scientific American • Apr. 24, 2023
“In due season all that lives returns to dust, making the earth fecund with life. Smell how the air tonight is pregnant with the flowers’ blooms and their bee-sought sweetness.”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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