multiplied

The booth-oriented Web sites multiplied when their creators saw the phone on other sites and--after calling numerous times--decided to document their own pilgrimages to the desert phone.

"None of the bowlers seemed to be able to calm themselves down and it multiplied," former England bowler Steve Finn told BBC Two.

"Because of our activism, the targeting by authoritarian regimes against us has multiplied... my wife and I have no choice but to seek asylum in the UK."

Nerdy math types multiplied in this year’s lineup, though no character exactly fit the stereotypical image of a poindexter.

The pensioner and police later said the video was unrelated to the incident but social media calls to find and attack the perpetrators multiplied quickly.