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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

This strategy is a long-term bet that domestic and international demand for gas continues to rise as energy hungry data centers proliferate and populations in Asia continue to grow.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 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

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

But a bok- anovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

This isn’t exactly far from the kind of inextricability between an actor and their character that typically proliferates early Oscar campaigns.

From Salon Nov. 7, 2025

The implanted epidermis proliferates and forms a small cyst.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

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

No banks equivalent to those that proliferated in 18th-century England existed in America, and many hoped a republic of yeomen farmers could do without them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 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

Confederate monuments, memorials, and imagery proliferated throughout the South during the Civil Rights Era.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

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

With powerful AI models that can hack into systems rapidly proliferating, this, too, could be a growth opportunity for the company.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

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

From Barron's Apr. 27, 2026

Nor did they seem aware of the proliferating giant that was our field organization.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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