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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

I looked down, cursing myself that I had dared to suspect she could burgeon only in the affluence of satins.

From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

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

His childlike curiosity burgeons into an adolescent’s need for experimentation and, finally, independence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2017

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

Others have breakpoints that don’t kick in until the funds are gigantic, so their expenses have barely budged, even though their assets have burgeoned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Micron, for one, is preparing to launch a major stock-buyback program, as its cash flows have burgeoned during the AI boom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 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

Or here was the law: as his life diminished, theirs burgeoned, requiring attention.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Twenty years ago, as Baig related to me, the Noor Islamic Cultural Center had opened its doors in Dublin, welcoming the burgeoning South Asian American groups who had settled in and around the state’s capital.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

A federal jury reached a verdict last week in the latest lawsuit surrounding the burgeoning market for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The link is a symbol of the burgeoning relations between the two countries.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

There’s a 30-year-old printing press and machines added in the last two years to serve the burgeoning trading-card games business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

In many ways, the Green Revolution was a tremendous boon; harvests in many poor countries soared so fast that despite burgeoning populations the incidence of hunger fell dramatically.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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