ramify

Does it also require a robust historical profession, free to ramify in a hundred directions at once, not all of them inspiring?

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

But in complex technological systems, small mistakes may rapidly ramify and compound into large problems.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2021

Perhaps surprisingly, the effects of the growth of the penal state ramify well beyond city streets, all the way, for instance, to the Gulf of Mexico.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2016

"Everything that could fork, ramify, coil, flutter, fold back or thread through itself," wrote Leigh Fermor of the Landsknechts, "suddenly sprang to action."

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012

I need to know that ramify and bifurcate are synonyms, if they even are?

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Biodegradable yet tough enough to withstand hurricanes, leaves get their strength from their “skeleton,” a highly ramified network of fine veins made of a woody compound called lignocellulose.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 24, 2024

Despite his conflation of terms, Butler’s history is an indispensable account of a revolution in acting that ramified beyond the theater, even as he vacillates on whether the Method ever truly “died.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2022

His book describes in great detail the immensely ramified activities of the "underground" Communist movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Donnybrook over the continued existence of the NEA began last year with the funding of an exhibition of Mapplethorpe's photographs, has ramified immensely since then, and is now coming to a head.

From Time Magazine Archive

“The results are always more significant if the patient and I are alone when the psychosubstantiation tests are performed. External distractions have a deleterious effect on the ramified scores.”

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

“Historical inquiries are ramifying in a hundred directions at once, and there is no coordination among them,” Bernard Bailyn, one of the nation’s most esteemed historians, wrote a few years earlier.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

In my case, these take the form of a steadily ramifying doubt that extends to every aspect of the journey.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016

This is an essential truth, ramifying and growing deeper across America.

From Time ● Sep. 26, 2014

Franzen garlands his city and story in soot, smog, intrigue, and endlessly ramifying plot lines.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2013

I had been sensible of its pulses spreading throughout my arms, across my chest like the ramifying systems of artery or nerve.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson