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proliferate

[pruh-lif-uh-rayt] / prəˈlɪf əˌreɪt /


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Already, corporate customers of AI firms are beginning to cut back on their consumption as fees for their services rise and doubts about their value proliferate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

And he said its push into live events helped Netflix stand out as streaming options proliferate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

And he raised the specter of ruinous financial liability across the fossil fuel industry if state and local lawsuits proliferate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The statewide effort to proliferate Flock cameras comes as backlash is mounting over the surveillance, including from some members of the Legislature, where the $1 fee was approved without opposition.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 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

The more an image proliferates in the world, the more nagging it is, and naturally, our brains twist these repetitive ideas into humor to blunt their obnoxiousness.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025

That one moment of it proliferates into the next by transitions which, whether conjunctive or disjunctive, continue the experiential tissue, can not, I contend, be denied.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James

“That has now proliferated into a myth that won’t quit, yet it isn’t actually helpful in today’s algorithms, as airlines price in real-time based on inventory.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Several years ago, stories proliferated of performers losing health insurance as they contended with heart problems or underwent cancer treatment, and in recent months, actors have again aired concerns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Culinary and pastry courses, once relatively rare in India, have proliferated over the past decade, with foreign private schools helping drive its high-end hospitality sector.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

With few regulations, hundreds of new private and microschools have proliferated.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Which raises the question: In an age of proliferating paper currencies and mounting public debts, what is money worth?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Still, the view that deteriorating housing affordability has made it more attractive for young Americans to build net worth in assets other than housing is proliferating.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 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

Tiny new Christian schools, often operating in Sunday school spaces in churches, are proliferating.

From Salon ● Jul. 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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