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Recent Examples of infertile The remaining are infertile worker bees. William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 Studies suggest that around 10% of infertile men have a history of an undescended testicle. Matthew Wosnitzer, Verywell Health, 5 Jan. 2025 For instance, 1 in 10 people who experience pelvic inflammatory disease become infertile. Wendy Wisner, Health, 11 Dec. 2024 In the course of tens of millions of years, the island’s infertile soils came to nurture a flora unlike any other in the world. Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for infertile
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Adjective
  • The idea was to drive down the mosquito population because eggs produced by a female after a romp with a sterile male don’t hatch.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
  • But the overall health system in Chad is fragile, and many Chadian women don't have access to a safe and sterile place to deliver.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the early 1900s, Jennie Butchart transformed the scarred land of a barren limestone quarry into a lush retreat, proving nature’s resilience.
    Cheryl Russell, Oc Register, 11 May 2025
  • The inky ocean depths are often assumed to be barren, but this is a myth, said Adrian Glover, a deep-sea ocean scientist at the UK’s Natural History Museum.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • A lot of people have this idea of the north as being cold and desolate, and maybe people, once upon a time, lived up there, but don't anymore.
    Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The Memphis rapper began the show with dramatics, rising on a giant platform with her back to the audience as a screen behind her projected the image of a desolate street.
    John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Infectious disease experts note that the vitamin is most useful in impoverished countries where children are significantly malnourished.
    Katherine Dillinger, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
  • Post-Civil War, however, the nation was tired, and large segments of the population—especially in the South—were impoverished.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns each added 23 points and OG Anunoby bounced back from two poor performances by scoring 20 for the Knicks, who can win the series Wednesday night at Boston.
    Brian Mahoney, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2025
  • This results in a very poor Debt-to-Equity Ratio of 232.7% (against 21.5% for the S&P 500).
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025

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“Infertile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infertile. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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