rampancy
Example Sentences
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Economy revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told a government panel meeting the three prefectures would be designated for semi-emergency status under a new rampancy prevention law beginning next Monday for one month.
From Seattle Times
One board leader encouraged readers to migrate to a new refuge on a sister site “due to prevailing conditions of general reactionary rampancy and the unfavorable present conditions of this site.”
From Washington Post
The treatment was withdrawn because of its side-effects – obesity, aggression, sexual rampancy – and since being put on a “safer” type of testosterone, I’ve been impotent.
From The Guardian
Despite the color’s apparent rampancy, not everyone knows it by its adopted name, and for many its prevalence hasn’t even registered.
From Salon
Go Easy is by far their most accessible yet, balancing the arty with the party beautifully to make for a set of danceable, hook-filled songs that bubble and bloom with an almost biological rampancy, shooting out tendrils of strange, snaking melody in every direction like vines enveloping a ruin.
From The Guardian
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