profusion

The success of Mark Kurlansky’s 2002 microhistory, “Salt,” has given rise to a great profusion of narrative-nonfiction works that have as their starting point an ordinary thing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

It’s a barren landscape, yet perfect; it’s the sort of desert the saints went into, so their minds would not be distracted by profusion.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

But, instead of planes of all sizes and descriptions circling at every altitude, there are wild profusions of different species of fish.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2012

The citizens decked the city called after the elephant with garlands of flowers in profusions, with beautiful pennons and standards of diverse kinds.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli