- present participle of mushroom.
mushrooming
Example Sentences
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That is at least least partly due to Proposition 103, which was passed in 1988 in an era of mushrooming auto premiums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
New data centres -- warehouse-like facilities that store online files and power AI tools from chatbots to image generators -- are mushrooming worldwide, and the sector is growing particularly fast in Asia.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
In nursing homes mushrooming across the Mexican border, elderly Americans are turning up for low-cost care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
But experts say such strikes will need to be consistent to hunt down existing IS cells in Somalia and stop others mushrooming.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025
Anthony told me that we were going to be joined by someone they’d met at the burn the week before, a young guy known to them only by his mushrooming nickname: Paulie Porcini.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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