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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
Everyone knows that 37-year-olds—especially infertile ones—don’t get pregnant on their first try.
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Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
For instance, 1 in 10 people who experience pelvic inflammatory disease become infertile.
—Wendy Wisner, Health, 11 Dec. 2024
It is often used to help infertile couples conceive biological children.
—Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 14 June 2024
For infertile couples, the government will update policies so that if fertility procedures fail, financial support won't be clawed back.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
For instance, 1 in 10 people who experience pelvic inflammatory disease become infertile.
—Wendy Wisner, Health, 11 Dec. 2024
It is often used to help infertile couples conceive biological children.
—Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 14 June 2024
For infertile couples, the government will update policies so that if fertility procedures fail, financial support won't be clawed back.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infertile
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Her dance team performances were supplanted with physical therapy, and high school classrooms replaced with sterile examination rooms.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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That's due in large part to Chad's fragile health system and is compounded by the many Chadian women who don't have access to a safe and sterile place to deliver.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
19 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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Mass Effect's core loop doesn't benefit from huge barren landscapes that are devoid of detail.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
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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On the idyllic shores of the once popular tourist hot spot Inle Lake, in southern Shan state, the earthquake destroyed hundreds of bamboo houses on stilts occupied by impoverished villagers, according to aid workers.—
Ross Adkin,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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These navigators link impoverished Floridians with the network of religious and community organizations that support them and teach them how to take of themselves, according to Hope Florida’s supporters.—
Jeffrey Schweers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2025
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There’s a real debate to be had about what responsibility better-off neighborhoods like Hyde Park have to help solve humanitarian problems that often are laid at the feet of poorer areas.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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Job loss also results in people experiencing higher levels of depressive symptoms, poor health, loss of social support, and disruption of social and family ties, according to Jennie E Brand, author of The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment.—
Paul Klein,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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“Infertile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infertile. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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