prolific

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The CBS News program "48 Hours" in 1993 devoted an hourlong program, "See You in Court; Civil War, Anthony Martin Clogs Legal System with Frivolous Lawsuits," to what it called his prolific filings.

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  1. adjective Producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile.
  2. adjective Producing abundant works or results: a prolific artist. See Synonyms at fertile.

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  • Best known as the prolific and gifted frontman for the country-rock band Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst ventured out on his own this summer.
  • Tobias Wolff, widely known as a prolific short-story writer and the author of the memoir —  About.com Contemporary Literature
  • Cinematical lists seven filmmakers who are so prolific, they're like one-man movie factories. —  Phillyist
  • Elusive and prolific, the artist-inventor owns a pop-culture profile that both lures and detracts. —  Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
  • Patients with temporal lobe alterations could be prolific, although the quality of their output was typically low. —  Psychology Today
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  1. French prolifique, from Medieval Latin prōlificus : Latin prōlēs, prōl-, offspring; see al-2 in Indo-European roots + Latin -ficus, -fic.

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  1. from French prolifique = Spanish prolífico = Portuguese Italian prolifico, from Middle Latin *prolificus, producing offspring, from Latin proles, offspring, + facere, make, produce: see -fic. Cf. prolify.
 

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