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prolific

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1. prolific - Adjective

2. prolific - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.

Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.

Proliferous.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities. Christine Vachon

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. Douglas Adams

Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed. Nick Lowe

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. George Santayana

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. Edward Jenner

Some fortunate, prolific writers seem to be able, efficiently, to keep several projects going at once; it appears I am not one of them. Lois McMaster Bujold

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