profusion
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“The Song of Stork and Dromedary” draws on the lives of Charlotte and Emily Brontë, but expands outward in a profusion of linked stories that leap over eras and continents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
He certainly is not advocating violent demonstrations but even a profusion of peaceful protests elsewhere would still require an increase in public-order policing.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
And the sharks — who do not seem particularly interested in the humans, as there is no lack of familiar lunch options — do sometimes arrive in great, unsettling profusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
There’s also evidence that the profusion of bodies and nightmarish scenes that characterize Mitchell’s later work started to creep in before he went to Vietnam.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025
The profusion of Clovis hunters’ sites within the first few centuries after their arrival resembles the site profusion documented archaeologically for the more recent discovery of New Zealand by ancestral Maori.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The former president had chosen Kehinde Wiley to paint his image, and Wiley responded with his trademark mix of formal portraiture and baroque profusions of decoration.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022
Grande’s bravura vocal profusions and naughty wit and her collaborators’ top-shelf arrangements are undeniable.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2020
On a sultry afternoon recently, Regina Myer, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, walked past profusions of swamp milkweed, rose mallows and cardinal flowers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2015
The event had its precedents, most obviously the marathon concerts that Bang on a Can has presented for more than two decades, which have offered similar artistic profusions and aesthetic collisions.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2011
Isn’t Tolosa the proper field for your abilities, for your sympathies, for your profusions, for your generosities—the king without a crown, the man without a fortune!
From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad
Vocabulary lists containing profusion
The Great Gatsby
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"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Dracula
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