fructify

“A perspicacious analyst might wonder whether talk of inflation, recession and other factors would fructify in a slower spending growth,” Moynihan said in an analyst call in 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

“Money,” Cowperthwaite said, should be left “to fructify in the pockets of taxpayers”.

From Economist ● Oct. 5, 2017

“We’re just starting to see that interest in the sport beginning to fructify now … this fight is bankable,” Nelson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2017

It will be interesting to see the many wonders which will fructify from the works of these two modern "brothers" in Christ.

From Time Magazine Archive

"There has been no work of this importance published in the last thirty years, and it is possible and permissible to hope that some ideas sketched in it will fructify in the future."

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Those discussions fructified into the present partnership more than a year later.

From Forbes ● Jul. 4, 2013

Maybe it was the peace of land long inhabited, long farmed and fructified by human presence — land where humans and the earth had established a lasting friendship.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2012

It was American statesmanship that first threw out the idea which has fructified in the Dawes scheme.

From Time Magazine Archive

Victor first fructified his soul with great Nature or with poets, and then, and not till then, awaited the dawn of a system.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul

One of these was moreover in itself a curious and interesting chapter of observation, and it fructified, in Hawthorne's memory, in one of his best productions.

From Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) by Henry James

There were spawned out salmon on the banks, and the air smelled of fish in a marvelous fructifying funk that is the death that brings new life to the river.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

And “Better Things” kept going, fructifying into a closely observed and deeply felt portrait of one woman’s over-full life.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022

The soil is darker than coffee grounds, inky, sweet and redolent of fructifying forest funk.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022

The sights and sounds of what she calls Hong Kong's "fructifying untidiness" are abundant and enthusiastically conveyed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or rather, it was a productive and fructifying pain.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison