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growing

Definition for growing

adjective as in increasing

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Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.

Asian-Americans may vote for Democrats now, but they are a highly persuadable—and growing—part of the electorate.

Asian-Americans are a group of persuadable swing voters, growing faster than any other group in America today.

Latinos, the fastest growing minority group in America, are even more underrepresented in Congress.

These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.

She herself had worn them in her youth, and they were the proper bonnets for "growing girls."

She was growing a little stout, but it did not seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture.

Mrs. Jolly Robin had often wished—when she was trying to feed a rapidly-growing family—that she could hunt forp.

She was growing accustomed to like shocks, but she could not keep the mounting color back from her cheeks.

Tobacco is a strong growing plant resisting heat and drought to a far (p. 018) greater extent than most plants.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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