rampancy

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Due to the rampancy of social media, influencers and celebrity culture, ours is arguably the most parasocial age in human history.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023

Yet, instead of becoming inured to the rampancy of spooks, the West German press continues in full cry on the spy-expos� trail.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a country where there is practically no such class as that represented in Europe by the peasantry, the rampancy of such a belief is a phenomenon deserving close and curious study.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

In the first place, this was the time of the year when the flies and manifold sort of vermin, flying, crawling, hopping, hungry, and ever biting, were in the full rampancy of their young vigor.

From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by Griffis, William Elliot

Backed by a vast multitude of rash and impetuous working-men, those born "bosses" formed a formidable check to the rampancy of the two-sworded order.

From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Nitobe, Inazo