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growing
adjective as in increasing
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burgeoning, developing, expanding, flourishing, spreading, thriving, viable
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amplifying, animate, augmenting, budding, crescent, dilating, enlarging, fructifying, germinating, living, maturing, mushrooming, pullulating, sprouting, stretching, swelling, waxing
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Example Sentences
The artist said when growing up in Virginia, many people could not pronounce his full name.
Outside all the chatter, Shaboozey addressed the growing controversy with good grace.
“When you’re a seven-year-old child and you can’t properly understand why you feel so different and so isolated, it’s obviously going to impact you growing up,” Mia recalls.
"The act of growing and caring for those peaches is an important cultural practice. These were the first peaches introduced in the 1500s and 1600s that were then carried halfway across the continent and continue to be grown today."
We spoke to Gaffigan about the inspiration behind his new hourlong special, the pains of parenting teenagers and how growing his career while his body gets slimmer is only the beginning of his new chapter in comedy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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