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present participle of mushroom.

mushrooming

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flourishing adj.
growing adj.
prospering adj.
roaring adj.

ADJECTIVE

flourishing

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blooming burgeoning expanding growing prosperous thriving

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rank roaring

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doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse rampant rich robust successful vigorous

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declining failing losing

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ceasing decreasing languishing stunted undeveloping

ADJECTIVE

growing

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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 pullulating sprouting stretching swelling waxing

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crescive

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failing languishing

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dead dying shrinking

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lessening withering

ADJECTIVE

prospering

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blooming booming burgeoning expanding growing rank roaring thriving

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boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant rich robust successful thrifty vigorous

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declining

ADJECTIVE

roaring

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booming thriving

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blooming burgeoning expanding growing lush prospering rank rich

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boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant robust successful thrifty vigorous

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barren sparse

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Meanwhile, new LNG terminals were mushrooming on the Gulf Coast, and Qatar was on track to expand its export capacity more than 40% starting around midyear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

New data centres -- warehouse-like facilities that store online files and power AI tools from chatbots to image generators -- are mushrooming worldwide, and the sector is growing particularly fast in Asia.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

And they’re not new, although they do seem to be mushrooming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

But outrage over mushrooming college “sticker” prices clouds a reality that some families may not fully understand: Few students pay the full price.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

Margie had three big brothers instead of one, and one day in October the whole bunch of them went out mushrooming.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

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