proliferation
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"These cells can hide from chemotherapy and then remain in this dormant quiescent state in the tumor, and then later reactivate to drive proliferation."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
This is converging with concerns about youth mental health, the outsourcing of thinking to artificial intelligence, and the proliferation of social media and smartphones impacting attention spans and self-esteem.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Other factors - like the proliferation of ultra-processed foods - also matter.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
According to the deal, U.S. and Saudi officials will carry out a “Joint Enrichment and Conversion Study” within two years to study “the economic viability” of enriching uranium and arrangements to guard against proliferation risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
As any modern parent knows, the baby-naming industry is booming, as evidenced by a proliferation of books, websites, and baby-name consultants.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Though cyanobacteria is a naturally occurring microorganism, sometimes conditions conspire to create huge proliferations called blooms that can create problems that range from obnoxious to toxic.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2020
Gen. Jeff Sessions to adopt website regulations, saying the absence of such regulations “only fuels the proliferations of these suits.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2018
One of the many recent proliferations of an invasive species concerns the Asian carp in the United States.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
There’s a tendency in prequels and sequels and the like to make things tidy, which Ryman’s proliferations of Dorothys and Scarecrows is not.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2014
Changes somewhat analogous to those found in the human aorta as the result of intimal proliferations, are produced in animals by the toxins of the typhoid bacillus and the Streptococcus pyogenes.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
Vocabulary lists containing proliferation
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
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