fertile
Example Sentences
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Food stocks provide fertile ground for this exercise.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
Cities are squalid crime hives that need to be tamed or abandoned in the Sheridanverse, whereas small towns and Western vistas are quaint canvases fertile with possibility.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026
Ukrainians have for centuries been mostly an agrarian nation, plowing fertile black soils and relying on neighbors for physical and spiritual succor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
He described Guangdong as "fertile ground" for development, pledging to bring more digital services to the region and make its factories even more efficient.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
Her gentle efforts to guide the hand of destiny, by decoying her master with fertile tricks or by reticent considerations these had not bean strong enough to be recognized in the despotism of fife.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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