profusion
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But horror stories have been around forever — and never in such profusion as they are now, to the point that there is little new under the bloody sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
As the profusion of large language models and other tools has picked up, demand for inference computing has skyrocketed, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said in a joint interview with Su.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
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
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 island’s pottery, some of it very large, has long been celebrated for its painted and incised representations of animals and plants, which are ornately entan- gled in a profusion that recalls the forest itself.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
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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