proliferate
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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
If open-weight models proliferate, Anthropic could struggle to pay for its computing build-out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
As AI applications proliferate, Goertzel raised the question: “Where do you draw the line between AI development and software development?”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 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
Figures of auxesis and repetition—often pulling together words or themes from earlier in the speech—commonly proliferate in the peroration, and many orators will crank it up a little in the direction of the grand style.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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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
As AI-generated content proliferates, Taylor Swift becomes the latest celebrity to seek trademark protections for her voice and image.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 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
Something comes, Perhaps, to whisper something in the ear That will exert itself against the mass That grows, proliferates; but for the rest The task is done.
From Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters
Hydroelectric dams have proliferated across Southeast Asia in recent years, but production drops off in the dry season and critics lament the ecological impacts.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Credit-default swaps proliferated in the lead-up to the 2008 global financial crisis, then shrank in its aftermath and have since staged a comeback.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Private-capital funds have proliferated in recent years as investors seek to reduce reliance on public markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
With few regulations, hundreds of new private and microschools have proliferated.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Evolution occurred in scientific progress as it happened in nature: a positive trait was passed along, then proliferated; obsolete characteristics withered away, and the technology and the organization evolved into something new.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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An out-of-work copywriter on the job hunt himself, he now hunts down the proliferating scams targeting job seekers everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
Stocks and ETFs promising monthly or even weekly income are proliferating, but frequent payouts can obscure volatility and weak total returns.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 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
Most of the work done at Langley was of the “compressed-air” persuasion, research conducted in one of the proliferating number of wind tunnels.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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