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proliferate

[pruh-lif-uh-rayt] / prəˈlɪf əˌreɪt /


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And he raised the specter of ruinous financial liability across the fossil fuel industry if state and local lawsuits proliferate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

One reason Devitt is still bullish on Amazon is that he believes customers are still likely to start their shopping journeys on Amazon’s site, even as AI agents proliferate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The statewide effort to proliferate Flock cameras comes as backlash is mounting over the surveillance, including from some members of the Legislature, where the $1 fee was approved without opposition.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

But individual ticks are capable of carrying more than one disease simultaneously, and as their territories proliferate, healthcare professionals are warning Americans to pay attention to strange symptoms.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Now we are wondering whether nuclear weapons will proliferate around the world by the same often-violent process, from the eight countries that presently possess them.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Some of that message is getting through to younger generations today, as well, as the information about tax strategy proliferates.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

“The Murder Game” proliferates taxonomies of its own, which often overlap and can become repetitive, especially when the same material is repeated across different chapters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

“With significant near-term opportunities ahead as AEC adoption proliferates across hyperscalers and as new products ramp to production, we expect Credo to beat current consensus estimates.”

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

The more an image proliferates in the world, the more nagging it is, and naturally, our brains twist these repetitive ideas into humor to blunt their obnoxiousness.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025

With further complexity the simple internal cavity tends to disappear, and the sponge proliferates in such a way that more than one osculum is formed.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

With few regulations, hundreds of new private and microschools have proliferated.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Messages of support with the hashtag #IAmJaneDoe have proliferated on TikTok, X and Instagram, with users claiming to be the alleged victim in a bid to make it harder to identify her.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

These programs have proliferated in the past few years, with tens of millions of dollars spent on initiatives at Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, the University of Michigan, New York University and dozens of smaller schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

You don’t have to dig deep to see this narrative proliferated in our culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Black-and-yellow triangular fallout shelter signs proliferated in public spaces, pointing the way to underground refuge from radiation.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

HOAs are proliferating because of the need for an entity to manage common spaces.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Stocks and ETFs promising monthly or even weekly income are proliferating, but frequent payouts can obscure volatility and weak total returns.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Cook also addressed Apple's impending public relaunch of Siri, an AI assistant that the company has seemingly struggled to make competitive in an era of proliferating AI chatbots from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Tiny new Christian schools, often operating in Sunday school spaces in churches, are proliferating.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Even boys’ names—which have always been scarcer than girls’—have been proliferating wildly.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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