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
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
From the sea-shore to the shady green park, from the park to the dim distance, the land pullulated with people.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
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
The majority of the little circles that once pullulated in Paris no longer exist.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
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
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
If it takes days or weeks for protective antibodies to develop, why does not the pullulating virus overwhelm all the victim's susceptible cells in the meantime?
From Time Magazine Archive
Both are inferentially portraits of a pullulating urban landscape; both wear their classical erudition boldly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contendon.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
