as in prolific
producing abundantly
settlers gradually migrated from the rocky shores to more fructuous lands
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Despite being one of the most prolific child actors of the 1960s, what he was connected to more than anything else was music.—
Jim Axelrod,
CBS News,
14 June 2026 -
Tour the prolific Spanish painter’s studio from the post-war years at what’s now the Picasso Museum, housed in a former château in the old town.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
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The scenario is an old-fashioned when-you-wish-upon-a-monkey’s-paw chestnut, the kind that’s been fertile ground for everybody from Stephen King to The Simpsons.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
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The males — all living in a 200-square-mile area of farms and wilderness outside Naples — seek mates and lead the biologists to large, fertile females holding up to 100 egg follicles.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
11 June 2026
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The discovery is so surprising because even though AGNs are rich with gas and dust — the building blocks of planets — the turbulent conditions within the disks wouldn't generally be considered ideal for forming planets.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 June 2026
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Gardena and salted amber give this shimmery body mist a rich, tropical vacation sort of scent profile.—
Reece Andavolgyi,
InStyle,
14 June 2026
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“Fructuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fructuous. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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