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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fructify.

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  • It was only after loans from Asian Development Bank and International Finance Corporation fructified in 2003, did the business begin to stabilize.

    Ranbaxy Heir's Future-Proof Strategy 2011

  • It was only after loans from Asian Development Bank and International Finance Corporation fructified in 2003, did the business begin to stabilize.

    Ranbaxy Heir's Future-Proof Strategy 2011

  • It was only after loans from Asian Development Bank and International Finance Corporation fructified in 2003, did the business begin to stabilize.

    Ranbaxy Heir's Future-Proof Strategy 2011

  • Legend by then had fructified Chapman (1774-1845), a footloose (and footsore) son of a Bunker Hill veteran, into a mythic, apple-spreading American nomad of the lonesome frontier.

    A Pro-Growth Strategy Bill Kauffman 2011

  • According to the midrashic retelling, after Cain murdered Abel, Adam resolved to abstain from relations with his wife and they lived a celibate life for one hundred and thirty years, during which the male spirits were fructified from Eve, who then gave birth, while the female spirits were fructified by Adam and they then gave birth.

    Eve: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

  • "Womb," the orgiastic religious festival of Aphrodite in Argos, where the Womb of the World was adored and symbolically fructified.1 by offering sacrifice, in this case, pigs?

    Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

  • "Womb," the orgiastic religious festival of Aphrodite in Argos, where the Womb of the World was adored and symbolically fructified.1 by offering sacrifice, in this case, pigs?

    Womb - That from Which We Come, That to Which We Go Jan 2008

  • Earth – Current, and that same life-stream fructified the soil, and gave life and blood to the plants and to the trees, and to every bush and natural thing.

    The Night Land 2007

  • The pirates who boarded you on Election Day 2000 and who today man the oval office have no interest in cultivating you, or in nurturing the free flow of ideas which grow in any fruitful and fructified democracy.

    Condoleezza Rice��s Blueprint for a Repressive State 2005

  • The combined efforts of researchers from Durham University, Imperial College, London and the University of Sheffield have fructified.

    Magnetic Computing Gets a Boost | Impact Lab 2005

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