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ramify

[ram-uh-fahy] / ˈræm əˌfaɪ /


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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

His book describes in great detail the immensely ramified activities of the "underground" Communist movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

But observers could draw their own semi-conclusions from the following facts: The United Press, widely ramified outside of the U. S., takes special pride, and much of its profit, in its South American service.

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

Grieving her mother’s illness and death, she turned to Heaney’s sonnet sequence “Clearances,” written in memory of his own mother, pausing over the mysterious last lines: “A soul ramifying and forever/Silent, beyond silence listened for.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2018

Because it is possible to think of the Internet itself, in all its incomprehensible vastness, as an exponentially ramifying network of commentary and metacommentary.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2015

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

From Time ● Sep. 26, 2014

Franzen garlands his city and story in soot, smog, intrigue, and endlessly ramifying plot lines.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2013

The disagreement, which has ramifying political implications, is encapsulated by Amazonia, the subject to which I will now turn.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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