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burgeon

[bur-juhn] / ˈbɜr dʒən /


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It’s why Redick’s got a plan to help this community rebuild, a foundation that will start with the rec center and burgeon into a lifeline for public facilities around Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025

But dengue and Zika could burgeon in a warmer world.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 25, 2023

As a result, the second joey, after it is born and has grown in the pouch, will be exiting the pouch around the time that spring grasses burgeon, when there is plenty to eat.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2020

The season’s traditions burgeon with messages of brotherhood and good will.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2019

In bright fields and garden-closes How they burgeon and unfold!

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various

As anti-royalist sentiment burgeons, Bologne stages a benefit concert for the insurrection and faces a personal crisis.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023

Lithium ion batteries are expected to remain the dominant battery chemistry as the industry burgeons, especially in transportation.

From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2021

The music burgeons and recedes, with different instrumental groups sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes in sync.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2020

Its emphasis falls on the folly of killing the thing that you wish would endure; terror burgeons in the gap between what was desired and what was achieved.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 2019

Madame Manec’s energy, Marie-Laure is learning, is extraordinary; she burgeons, shoots off stalks, wakes early, works late, concocts bisques without a drop of cream, loaves with less than a cup of flour.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Meanwhile, state-supported pre-K and child-care programs have burgeoned, completely disconnected from Head Start.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

They acted, in effect, as lower court federal judges, until business and commerce and the law burgeoned.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025

But as Jiang’s fame burgeoned, criticism and scepticism surrounding her skills also started to bubble.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024

As the war in Gaza nears the six-month mark, the humanitarian situation has burgeoned into a full-blown crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

The hedges burgeoned, and the fields were heavy with bounty.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

But she’s just one of a burgeoning group of Christian influencers, most of them fairly young, who hold themselves out as experts on marriage.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Secondly, Texas has a huge and growing appetite for electricity, driven by a burgeoning population.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The excitement of a burgeoning relationship is often fueled by a lack of information.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Morgan sees 48% with business momentum continuing for the burgeoning neocloud company.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

At home, burgeoning manhood was a trigger for apprehension.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore




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