as in prolific
producing abundantly
settlers gradually migrated from the rocky shores to more fructuous lands
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Adjective
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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 -
India is home to the world’s most prolific filmmaking industry.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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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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Plenty of restaurants in New York are preposterously expensive, and Marcel is, too—a cocktail alone can run more than forty bucks—but the restaurant pulls off the much rarer trick of feeling actually rich.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
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 18 Jun. 2026.
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