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prolific
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pro·lif·ic

adjective \prə-ˈli-fik\

: producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful

archaic : causing abundant growth, generation, or reproduction

: marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity <a prolific composer>

— pro·lif·i·ca·cy \-ˈli-fi-kə-sē\ noun

— pro·lif·i·cal·ly \-fi-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

— pro·lif·ic·ness \-fik-nəs\ noun

<a famously prolific author who could produce several works of fiction and nonfiction a year>
Since [David] Mamet is a prolific writer of Hollywood screenplays, there are today more people who know his work than know that they know it. —Juliet Fleming, Times Literary Supplement, 18 Feb. 2000
The main rival to his pneumonia was the prolific thrush which went into his throat and stomach. —Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, 1993
A writer as established and prolific as Joyce Carol Oates can approach her material in a wealth of ways unavailable to the more plodding. —Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review, 5 May 1991
Here there are La restaurants, wine bars, bookshops, estate agents more prolific than doctors, and attractive people in black, few of them aging. —Hanif Kureishi, Granta 22, Autumn 1987
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