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burgeon

[bur-juhn] / ˈbɜr dʒən /


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Even beyond the pandemic, he feels optimistic that the business will continue to burgeon — especially in the toilet-paper-loving U.S., where he sees a broad horizon for growth, especially among environmentally conscious consumers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2021

Guo thinks rice yield might also burgeon if it could be modified with its own chloroplast gene rather than one from mustard—further heating up these already hot results.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 21, 2020

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

They move and change, they wax and wane, they wither and burgeon; from age to age, from place to place, from mouth to mouth, they are never at a stay. 

From Style by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

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

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

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

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

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

As Abuja has slowly filled in over the years, it has shed some of its sterile feel, hosting a photography festival, an international film festival and a burgeoning literary scene.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

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 first was a burgeoning industry of escapism.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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