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proliferate

[pruh-lif-uh-reyt] / prəˈlɪf əˌreɪt /


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But individual ticks are capable of carrying more than one disease simultaneously, and as their territories proliferate, healthcare professionals are warning Americans to pay attention to strange symptoms.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

If predictions turn out to be true, in a few years agents will proliferate to the point where they outnumber people on enterprise networks.

From Barron's May 8, 2026

Recent advances that could open the way to quicker drug development are driving some of those investments—although it may still be some time before AI-concocted drugs proliferate.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

Two years later, Duncanson predicted that the power broadcasters had over football would proliferate to an extent not yet seen.

From BBC May 4, 2026

Phony rules, which proliferate like urban legends and are just as hard to eradicate, are responsible for vast amounts of ham-fisted copyediting and smarty-pants one-upmanship.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Some of that message is getting through to younger generations today, as well, as the information about tax strategy proliferates.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

“The Murder Game” proliferates taxonomies of its own, which often overlap and can become repetitive, especially when the same material is repeated across different chapters.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

“With significant near-term opportunities ahead as AEC adoption proliferates across hyperscalers and as new products ramp to production, we expect Credo to beat current consensus estimates.”

From Barron's Jan. 9, 2026

The more an image proliferates in the world, the more nagging it is, and naturally, our brains twist these repetitive ideas into humor to blunt their obnoxiousness.

From Salon Oct. 9, 2025

That one moment of it proliferates into the next by transitions which, whether conjunctive or disjunctive, continue the experiential tissue, can not, I contend, be denied.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James

Watches with designs nodding to other tech giants—including Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon—have also proliferated in recent years, according to Eric Ku, the co-founder of Loupe This, which auctions watches online.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

These privately owned e-scooters are illegal to ride on public roads across the UK, but they've proliferated regardless.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Since then, however, signs that AI has been oversold as a world-changing technology have proliferated.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

Posts bearing titles such as “What happened to Cursor?” and “Cursor is dead” proliferated on social media.

From MarketWatch Jun. 19, 2026

For pop, broadcast technology stimulated a thirst for new sounds and new voices that proliferated vigorously across the world.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

These massive sites, which are proliferating across the country, produce loud noise and pollution, rely on enormous amounts of water and electricity, tax power grids and inflate utility bills.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

Meanwhile, the investment terms on early-stage deals, such as the proliferating use of SAFEs, or simple agreements for future equity, have become very founder friendly and leave investors with few protections.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Cook also addressed Apple's impending public relaunch of Siri, an AI assistant that the company has seemingly struggled to make competitive in an era of proliferating AI chatbots from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

AI applications are proliferating on people’s smartphones and in workplaces, which can create some confusion.

From Barron's Apr. 27, 2026

Even boys’ names—which have always been scarcer than girls’—have been proliferating wildly.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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