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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
There are also many environmental problems from growing the sugar, like habitat and biodiversity loss and water pollution from fertilizers and mills.
This refrain underscores the growing partisan divide over the legislation’s priorities, with Republicans increasingly pushing for a focus on agriculture and rural development, while Democrats emphasize addressing food insecurity and expanding nutrition assistance programs.
Researchers at University of Limerick in Ireland have developed a new method of growing organic crystals that can be used for energy-harvesting applications.
“So growing up my dream school was Harvard because it had the academics of Princeton and the hockey of BC.”
Among the issues they face are high energy costs, weaker than expected demand for electric cars and growing competition from Chinese manufacturers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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