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proliferation

[pruh-lif-uh-rey-shuhn] / prəˌlɪf əˈreɪ ʃən /


NOUN
increase
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The proliferation of yuan-denominated assets is allowing Chinese trading partners such as oil producers to earn a return on the yuan they receive, with the confidence they can get out when they need to.

From The Wall Street Journal

DUP leader Gavin Robinson said there is clearly a "vulnerability" across social media in relation to the "proliferation of explicit content and engineered content".

From BBC

The proliferation of fly-by-night flags and registers has fanned concern about possible accidents involving old tankers with sanctioned cargoes, but until the recent seizures Western governments have mostly allowed them to sail unimpeded.

From The Wall Street Journal

Economic uncertainties are driving down cybersecurity hiring, stretching security teams thin amid a proliferation of data breaches, phishing and ransomware attacks, enterprise technology leaders and recruiters say.

From The Wall Street Journal

They include terrorism, nuclear proliferation, pandemics, new technologies and climate change.

From Salon