fertile imagination

collocation in English

meaningsoffertileandimagination

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fertile
adjective
uk
/ˈfɜː.taɪl/us
/ˈfɝː.t̬əl/
Fertile land can produce a large number of good ...
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imagination
noun
uk
/ɪˌmædʒ.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ɪˌmædʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
the ability to form pictures in ...
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(Definition offertileandimaginationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffertile imagination

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He has afertileimagination.
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Their easy production announced a gracious andfertileimagination, which sometimes precipitated them toward error.
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I will leave that to hisfertileimagination.
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It is the project of afertileimagination.
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That can only be a further figment of hisfertileimagination.
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In peace-time there is afertileimaginationin devising grievances.
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All the arguments were put up against it that could possibly be put up by a veryfertileimagination.
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Is it not a fact that these alleged difficulties only arise out of thefertileimaginationof hysterical journalists?
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He possessed a sweet and powerful voice, afertileimagination, and much literary cultivation.
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These were not people of flesh and blood, but sprang rather from hisfertileimagination.
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He is smart, independent and happy, and has a veryfertileimagination.
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His inspiration shows afertileimagination, and gives form to the wonderful and extraordinary.
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The amendment that we are considering has been drafted so as to cover any eventuality that the mostfertileimaginationcould conceive.
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The imagery springs from the depths of afertileimagination, invoking psychedelic visions, ancient dreams, and idyllic natural environments.
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He had, besides the skill and thefertileimaginationof the true army leader, the brilliant courage of a soldier.
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The new type of house—no doubt some person offertileimaginationwill invent a name—will be inhabited by persons who have been dispossessed of their dwellings in the slums.
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Nadeau later described the platform as having resulted from thefertileimaginationof a single party worker who misunderstood the instructions of its policy committee.
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They denied his former life and always told him his early childhood memories were the product of an overlyfertileimagination.
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