pullulate
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Those of us in my trade should remember it can generate communities and pullulate with kindness and creativity rather than conspiracy and contempt.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
Willows pullulate with blotchy foliage that recalls her fellow Austrian Gustav Klimt.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2020
What documentaries will look like ten or twenty years from now, when every life, prominent or otherwise, will pullulate with digital traces, one shudders to think.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 1, 2015
They pullulate as sylphs in Pope's Rape of the Lock; they appear in the verses of Drayton, Herrick, Milton, Spenser, Coleridge, Shelley and Blake.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Their home in Grove Terrace, Highgate – workaday Georgian moderated with 1950s wallpapers and furniture – pullulated with life.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2010
The majority of the little circles that once pullulated in Paris no longer exist.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
It urges the necessity for linking up with vital forces, but forgets that the real vital force of the German people has hitherto only pullulated under its skull.
From Selected Essays by H. J. Stenning
His person and his power continued to develop and to multiply with the advance of the centuries, so that in the Middle Ages the world fairly pullulated with demons.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
Squalid babies, with wan, pathetic faces, pullulated on the doorsteps; they showed from behind dingy windows at the breasts of haggard women.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
Mangrove doesn't stand – it floats and sweats, pullulating with malign life.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2011
It now takes a bribe to get a child into school, to get a milk card, even to get a long-distance railway ticket, let alone any of the innumerable licenses that India's pullulating bureaucracy demands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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India's pullulating contradictions obscured the view at a moment when it was more important than ever that the world understand what was going on in the seething subcontinent.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The other infants show no sign of illness, but are surrounded by such an aura of pullulating bacteria that they are called "cloud babies."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contendon.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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