burgeon

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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

If the 20% mandate were in place now, for example, EPSCoR’s budget would burgeon to about $1.75 billion.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 2, 2022

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

But no subject of any importance in literature is ever exhausted, because the products of literature grow or decay, burgeon or wither, as the generations of men apply their ever-varying organs of perception to them.

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund