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Does it also require a robust historical profession, free to ramify in a hundred directions at once, not all of them inspiring?

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

Perhaps surprisingly, the effects of the growth of the penal state ramify well beyond city streets, all the way, for instance, to the Gulf of Mexico.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2016

"Everything that could fork, ramify, coil, flutter, fold back or thread through itself," wrote Leigh Fermor of the Landsknechts, "suddenly sprang to action."

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012

As economist John Maynard Keynes wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify… into every corner of our minds.”

From Scientific American ● May 24, 2012

I need to know that ramify and bifurcate are synonyms, if they even are?

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Biodegradable yet tough enough to withstand hurricanes, leaves get their strength from their “skeleton,” a highly ramified network of fine veins made of a woody compound called lignocellulose.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 24, 2024

Despite his conflation of terms, Butler’s history is an indispensable account of a revolution in acting that ramified beyond the theater, even as he vacillates on whether the Method ever truly “died.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2022

Hollywood in the '30s and '40s is the novel's principal setting, though the ramified and exceedingly tenuous plot spreads across the U.S. and into the '90s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Friendship, lifelong and ramified, between these two and with recurring minor characters, is the bedrock theme of the novels.

From Time Magazine Archive

“The results are always more significant if the patient and I are alone when the psychosubstantiation tests are performed. External distractions have a deleterious effect on the ramified scores.”

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

By insisting on a pluralistic regime, they then drive a relentlessly ramifying scene of social complexity.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023

“Historical inquiries are ramifying in a hundred directions at once, and there is no coordination among them,” Bernard Bailyn, one of the nation’s most esteemed historians, wrote a few years earlier.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

The story Simonds originally told, about making old-fashioned, human-scale stories, had given rise to its own sequel, about ramifying digital exploitation.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2016

This is an essential truth, ramifying and growing deeper across America.

From Time ● Sep. 26, 2014

I had been sensible of its pulses spreading throughout my arms, across my chest like the ramifying systems of artery or nerve.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson