prolific
adjective
pro·lif·ic
prə-ˈli-fik 
1
: producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful
2
archaic
: causing abundant growth, generation, or reproduction
3
: marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity
a prolific composer
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Examples of prolific in a Sentence
Since [David] Mamet is a prolific writer of Hollywood screenplays, there are today more people who know his work than know that they know it.
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Juliet Fleming, Times Literary Supplement, 18 Feb. 2000
The main rival to his pneumonia was the prolific thrush which went into his throat and stomach.
—Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, 1993
A writer as established and prolific as Joyce Carol Oates can approach her material in a wealth of ways unavailable to the more plodding.
—Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review, 5 May 1991
Here there are La restaurants, wine bars, bookshops, estate agents more prolific than doctors, and attractive people in black, few of them aging.
—Hanif Kureishi, Granta 22, Autumn 1987
a famously prolific author who could produce several works of fiction and nonfiction a year
Juliet Fleming, Times Literary Supplement, 18 Feb. 2000
The main rival to his pneumonia was the prolific thrush which went into his throat and stomach.
—Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, 1993
A writer as established and prolific as Joyce Carol Oates can approach her material in a wealth of ways unavailable to the more plodding.
—Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review, 5 May 1991
Here there are La restaurants, wine bars, bookshops, estate agents more prolific than doctors, and attractive people in black, few of them aging.
—Hanif Kureishi, Granta 22, Autumn 1987
a famously prolific author who could produce several works of fiction and nonfiction a year
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The team who put the series together comprises several of those who brought ‘The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window’ to the big screen in 2013 including prolific European TV drama producer Patrick Nebout and Whiskey on the Rocks screenwriter and exec producer Henrik Jansson-Schweizer.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
The lyrics were part of the personal trove of the prolific rock ‘n’ roll journalist Al Aronowitz, who cut his own trail through the 1960s as chronicler and confidant of the era’s artists and musicians, including Dylan.
—Ali Watkins, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
We are told to find consolation in the creative and prolific souls who share the affliction: the Brontës, Baudelaire, Kafka, Proust, Nabokov.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
But if everything checks out, Simmons could be a prolific blindside blocker for Williams.
11.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
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Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
The lyrics were part of the personal trove of the prolific rock ‘n’ roll journalist Al Aronowitz, who cut his own trail through the 1960s as chronicler and confidant of the era’s artists and musicians, including Dylan.
—Ali Watkins, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
We are told to find consolation in the creative and prolific souls who share the affliction: the Brontës, Baudelaire, Kafka, Proust, Nabokov.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
But if everything checks out, Simmons could be a prolific blindside blocker for Williams.
11.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Prolific.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prolific. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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prolific
adjective
pro·lif·ic
prə-ˈlif-ik
1
: producing young or fruit in large numbers
a prolific orchard
2
: highly inventive : productive
a prolific writer
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