a fecund breed of cattle the Franklin stove, bifocals, and the lightning rod are just a few of the inventions that we owe to the fecund creativity of Benjamin Franklin

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Of course, in this disconnect between urge and action, a fecund interiority awaits. Sara Lippmann, Washington Post, "Anna Solomon’s ‘Book of V’ will please fans of ‘The Hours’ with its sprawling take on a biblical tale," 4 May 2020

There have been dozens more slamming the bureau for various transgressions, most of them figments of the fecund presidential imagination. Robert G. Kaiser, The New York Review of Books, "Fear and Loathing and the FBI," 11 Feb. 2020

Like a clump of black earth, Feit Covey’s pictures are dark but fecund. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, "In the galleries: A tip of the hat to a revered Washington milliner," 4 Oct. 2019

Their empty eye sockets still seeing the sacred prairie — this brown fecund earth round and heaving like a buffalo’s back. Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, "Readers and writers: For those who think that they shall never see … a gift as nice as poetry," 14 Dec. 2019

Last April, along a stretch of fecund Australian countryside, a couple expecting a baby performed what thousands of expectant couples now believe is the proper ritual for such an occasion. Monica Hesse, Washington Post, "Let’s have a gender-reveal party that reveals gender is a construct," 30 July 2019

Later generations were more fecund, with many of the most fit offspring being hybrids of the local and introduced fish, Reid reported at the meeting. Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, "Boosting genetic diversity may save vanishing animal populations. But it may also backfire," 16 July 2019

Nature is fecund all around us, a season in full swing, wheeling, dicing spores so numerous that the air is thick with them. Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, "Editor's Letter: On Savoring the Moment at Every Bend," 25 June 2019

His partner, Peter Schlesinger, a young California artist who had posed for many of his paintings, had left him after five years, ending a romance that coincided with one of Mr. Hockney’s most artistically fecund periods. Deborah Solomon, New York Times, "Seeking the Real David Hockney Through Fact and Fiction," 11 June 2019

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