prolificacy

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As phrase after phrase zips by, endings and beginnings of words melt into one another until all that has gotten to you is something like "brdbrdbrdbrd."

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  1. Fruitfulness; great productiveness. With plants like carrots, cabbages, and asparagus, which are not valued for their prolificacy, selection can have played only a subordinate part. Darwin, Var. of Animals and Plants, xvi. 9.

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  • As phrase after phrase zips by, endings and beginnings of words melt into one another until all that has gotten to you is something like "brdbrdbrdbrd." —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
  • The lice had multiplied with the filthy prolificacy of their kind and swarmed about us. —  The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
  • Mr. Jacobs, wherever he may be, does sadly dwell not in the land of prolificacy. —  Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
  • Throughout Sickert's life, his literary prolificacy was astonishing. —  Portrait of a Killer
  • But despite that prolificacy, the cosmos remained an enormous, very cold, and exceptionally poor place. —  Asimov's SF, June2006
 

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