prolificacy

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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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  • But despite that prolificacy, the cosmos remained an enormous, very cold, and exceptionally poor place. —  Asimov's SF, June2006
  • It seems almost impossible to achieve such prolificacy - thousands of long-winded screeds, most of them posted on Indymedia, a collection of websites that publish anything by anybody.
  • "Future of rap" accolades aside, he's more like the present -- Lil Wayne's prolificacy meets Kanye West's extroverted self-consciousness ( "Please don't call me a hipster / I'm from the heart not from the hip") meets Lupe Fiasco's —  Pitchfork: Latest News
  • "Admittedly, the prolificacy of fantastical cussing (" Your mother blows dwarves ") looses its edge after awhile and lends a comedy undertow that probably wasn't intended, but overall The Witcher feels suitably dark with a gritty, mature story to tell." —  TotalVideoGames.com
  • Ralph Fiennes was spent rather unromantically separating from his longtime spouse after she discovered he was taking Ralph Fiennes Reveals Secret Mancrush On 'Project Runway''s Tim Gunn Bravo executive Andy Cohen updates his blog with such inspiring passion and prolificacy that we're amazed he has any time left over for his primary duties, such as —  Gawker
 

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