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fertility

[fer-til-i-tee] / fərˈtɪl ɪ ti /


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The most significant factor driving down American fertility rates?

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

Deaths were more than double that at 1.6 million, while the fertility rate edged down 0.01 percentage points to 1.14 although marriages inched higher, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry numbers showed.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

With the nation’s fertility rate at record lows, the number of children under 18 is falling across the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Within about a decade, the country’s fertility rate plunged from an average of nearly six children per woman to just over two.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Warning patients about fertility loss before cancer treatment was standard practice at Hopkins, and something Howard Jones says he and TeLinde did with every patient.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Among a people who look to music and song as a source of enjoyment, the habit of improvisation grows up imperceptibly, and engages all the fertilities of imagination in its exercise. 

From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John

Now did Pedgift Junior shine brighter than ever he had shone yet in gems of caustic humor and exquisite fertilities of resource.

From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie




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