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as in sterile
not able to produce fruit or offspring
an infertile cow is of limited use to a farmer
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as in barren
producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation
only parched, infertile fields remained after months of drought
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Recent Examples of infertile
Studies suggest that around 10% of infertile men have a history of an undescended testicle.
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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
When this complex was disrupted, male zebrafish and mice became infertile.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 18 Oct. 2024
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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
When this complex was disrupted, male zebrafish and mice became infertile.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 18 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infertile
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Avoid sterile, clinical environments that can be intimidating.—
Ajay Prasad,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Pitt is set in Pittsburgh, not Chicago, and the season unfolds in real time, with overlapping crises ratcheting up tension as the cast careens around the sterile white set.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2025
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Charlie Parker’s Favorite Painting (1946) indicates Abercrombie’s engagement with social issues: a yellow noose, nearly fluorescent against a dishwater sky, dangles from a barren tree—an oblique lament from the doggedly antiracist Abercrombie.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, the patch of skin to the ’22 trophy’s left looks almost barren.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
25 Mar. 2025
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Fourteen years of war have left the country desolate, and its people exhausted; millions have been displaced or were forced to become refugees.—
Raghed Waked & Justin Salhani,
The Dial,
25 Mar. 2025
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That quality is maintained first and foremost by a desolate whistling-wind sound effect in the background of all the scenes, along with a sustained droning musical score.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
14 Mar. 2025
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Criminal justice scholars say that when scores based on immutable facts are weighted so heavily in parole decisions, prisoners from impoverished, racially segregated communities are more likely to be hurt.—
Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
10 Apr. 2025
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The once-vacant lot across the street from her childhood playground on Washington Avenue is now home to Wilcox Academy, an early learning center that represents a powerful investment in a historically impoverished community.—
Raymond Pierce,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Road conditions are rapidly deteriorating, with the percentage of roads in poor condition expected to double in two years.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Apr. 2025
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But academic research has consistently demonstrated that stadiums are poor drivers of economic growth and an analysis published last month found stadium projects spur little growth in local construction industries.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Infertile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infertile. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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