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proliferate

[pruh-lif-uh-reyt] / prəˈlɪf əˌreɪt /


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He saw that the world was facing a choice between a path where proprietary models like those from Anthropic or OpenAI dominate the field, and another where open-weight models proliferate.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

As artificial-intelligence agents proliferate and cyberthreats grow more widespread, Palo Alto Networks is having a moment in the spotlight as one of the few pure-play cybersecurity companies.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

But individual ticks are capable of carrying more than one disease simultaneously, and as their territories proliferate, healthcare professionals are warning Americans to pay attention to strange symptoms.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

Defense applications in space will also proliferate in the coming years.

From Barron's May 14, 2026

He had no intention of seeing laws proliferate and multiply.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Some of that message is getting through to younger generations today, as well, as the information about tax strategy proliferates.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

“The Murder Game” proliferates taxonomies of its own, which often overlap and can become repetitive, especially when the same material is repeated across different chapters.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

“With significant near-term opportunities ahead as AEC adoption proliferates across hyperscalers and as new products ramp to production, we expect Credo to beat current consensus estimates.”

From Barron's Jan. 9, 2026

The more an image proliferates in the world, the more nagging it is, and naturally, our brains twist these repetitive ideas into humor to blunt their obnoxiousness.

From Salon Oct. 9, 2025

That one moment of it proliferates into the next by transitions which, whether conjunctive or disjunctive, continue the experiential tissue, can not, I contend, be denied.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James

The latest techlash is against Flock Safety, whose AI-enabled license-plate reader cameras have proliferated across the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Labels and the maple leaf from the Canadian flag clearly identifying products' origins have proliferated in stores since last year.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

After a bigger splash at the New York World’s Fair in 1964, Mold-A-Ramas proliferated across the U.S., popping up in zoos, museums and anywhere tourists might exchange a coin for a toy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

These privately owned e-scooters are illegal to ride on public roads across the UK, but they've proliferated regardless.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Confederate monuments, memorials, and imagery proliferated throughout the South during the Civil Rights Era.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Still, the view that deteriorating housing affordability has made it more attractive for young Americans to build net worth in assets other than housing is proliferating.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

Stocks and ETFs promising monthly or even weekly income are proliferating, but frequent payouts can obscure volatility and weak total returns.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

Cook also addressed Apple's impending public relaunch of Siri, an AI assistant that the company has seemingly struggled to make competitive in an era of proliferating AI chatbots from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Tiny new Christian schools, often operating in Sunday school spaces in churches, are proliferating.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

Chagrin reproducing and proliferating, as if they would ever run short.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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