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profusion

[pruh-fyoo-zhuhn] / prəˈfju ʒən /


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Many turn to a profusion of platforms allowing people to squeeze income from their assets that is potentially passive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

This profusion has made the convenience store business one of the most fast-paced and competitive in the country — one that moves in lockstep with boom-and-bust social media attention spans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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

It was carved into a profusion of curlicues and niches which made the climb considerably easier.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Gradually, painstakingly, Cohen deepened AARON’s range to include human figures, objects like tables and flowerpots, and profusions of leafy plants.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

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

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

Laotse had come in the spirit of Plenydd the Light-bringer; in the spirit of Alawn, to raise up presently sweet profusions of song.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris




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