proliferate
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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
As tools developed by Anthropic and OpenAI proliferate, fears grow that all sorts of business services and software companies will be displaced.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Plus, China scuttles Meta’s acquisition and tech layoffs proliferate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
"Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely."
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 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
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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
That one moment of it proliferates into the next by transitions which, whether conjunctive or disjunctive, continue the experiential tissue, can not, I contend, be denied.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
These privately owned e-scooters are illegal to ride on public roads across the UK, but they've proliferated regardless.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Once live music, theater and sports returned, vaccines proliferated and public health restrictions eased, people rushed back to be entertained in big crowds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Since then, however, signs that AI has been oversold as a world-changing technology have proliferated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Posts bearing titles such as “What happened to Cursor?” and “Cursor is dead” proliferated on social media.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
Waterwheels appeared in Roman times and then proliferated, along with tidal mills and windmills, in the Middle Ages.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Restaurants are trying to make their proliferating fashion collaborations more appealing for everyday wear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
AI-generated influencers, virtual personalities and digital performers are already proliferating online, while entertainment companies continue to experiment with AI-created characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Nor did they seem aware of the proliferating giant that was our field organization.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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