proliferate
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The late economist Mancur Olson described the danger that, in democracies, interest groups proliferate that cause the government to calcify until it is unable to act.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026
As tools developed by Anthropic and OpenAI proliferate, fears grow that all sorts of business services and software companies will be displaced.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 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
There’s been general concern about whether traditional software vendors will be able to hold their ground as artificial-intelligence tools proliferate.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
That’s why settlements, and by inference tribes, began to proliferate in the Fertile Crescent at that time, when climate changes and improved technology combined to permit abundant harvests of wild cereals.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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