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proliferate

[pruh-lif-uh-reyt] / prəˈlɪf əˌreɪt /


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Change has become the norm, black swans proliferate like starlings, and the ability to navigate through the flux makes the difference between outsize success and obsolescence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

As tools developed by Anthropic and OpenAI proliferate, fears grow that all sorts of business services and software companies will be displaced.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

Two years later, Duncanson predicted that the power broadcasters had over football would proliferate to an extent not yet seen.

From BBC May 4, 2026

“Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely,” the company said.

From MarketWatch Apr. 11, 2026

“He can hear fish. So in our hanabata days, he helped ’em proliferate and he always had the best catch, but he not think beyond those kine fish.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

This isn’t exactly far from the kind of inextricability between an actor and their character that typically proliferates early Oscar campaigns.

From Salon Nov. 7, 2025

The implanted epidermis proliferates and forms a small cyst.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

Social media has been flooded with posts from users in Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador and Peru questioning refereeing decisions or expressing disapproval of Argentina, while messages mocking rival teams also proliferated from Argentine accounts.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Posts bearing titles such as “What happened to Cursor?” and “Cursor is dead” proliferated on social media.

From MarketWatch Jun. 19, 2026

The regulator also argues that the rule has forced brokers to buy expensive market data feeds linked to a bevy of exchanges, including overlapping ones that proliferated as a direct result of the rule.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

Soccer-themed documentaries have proliferated in recent years, with the 2023 hit Netflix series about David Beckham helping popularise the genre.

From Barron's May 16, 2026

Black-and-yellow triangular fallout shelter signs proliferated in public spaces, pointing the way to underground refuge from radiation.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

AI applications are proliferating on people’s smartphones and in workplaces, which can create some confusion.

From Barron's Apr. 27, 2026

Much of the pleasure of this book lies in these proliferating prismatic effects.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

So do well-informed experts and, more troubling, insiders with the ability to manipulate the betting markets that are proliferating so rapidly.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2026

"In fact, we observed that if we express this transporter on the surface of healthy cells, those cells stop proliferating in the presence of D-Cys."

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2026

Most of the work done at Langley was of the “compressed-air” persuasion, research conducted in one of the proliferating number of wind tunnels.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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