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pullulate

[puhl-yuh-layt] / ˈpʌl jəˌleɪt /


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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

The parties too, that already began to pullulate, were not better satisfied with the issue of the Champ de Mai.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon

Their home in Grove Terrace, Highgate – workaday Georgian moderated with 1950s wallpapers and furniture – pullulated with life.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2010

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

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

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

Mangrove doesn't stand – it floats and sweats, pullulating with malign life.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2011

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

Both are inferentially portraits of a pullulating urban landscape; both wear their classical erudition boldly.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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