burgeon
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It’s why Redick’s got a plan to help this community rebuild, a foundation that will start with the rec center and burgeon into a lifeline for public facilities around Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025
But theorists have had a hard time modeling how the smoldering fusion flares would burgeon into an all-consuming detonation.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 4, 2020
As a result, the second joey, after it is born and has grown in the pouch, will be exiting the pouch around the time that spring grasses burgeon, when there is plenty to eat.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2020
The season’s traditions burgeon with messages of brotherhood and good will.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2019
I looked down, cursing myself that I had dared to suspect she could burgeon only in the affluence of satins.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
Lithium ion batteries are expected to remain the dominant battery chemistry as the industry burgeons, especially in transportation.
From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2021
The music burgeons and recedes, with different instrumental groups sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes in sync.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2020
Its emphasis falls on the folly of killing the thing that you wish would endure; terror burgeons in the gap between what was desired and what was achieved.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 2019
His childlike curiosity burgeons into an adolescent’s need for experimentation and, finally, independence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2017
Madame Manec’s energy, Marie-Laure is learning, is extraordinary; she burgeons, shoots off stalks, wakes early, works late, concocts bisques without a drop of cream, loaves with less than a cup of flour.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Micron, for one, is preparing to launch a major stock-buyback program, as its cash flows have burgeoned during the AI boom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Meanwhile, state-supported pre-K and child-care programs have burgeoned, completely disconnected from Head Start.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
They acted, in effect, as lower court federal judges, until business and commerce and the law burgeoned.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025
But as Jiang’s fame burgeoned, criticism and scepticism surrounding her skills also started to bubble.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024
The hedges burgeoned, and the fields were heavy with bounty.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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A federal jury reached a verdict last week in the latest lawsuit surrounding the burgeoning market for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
But she’s just one of a burgeoning group of Christian influencers, most of them fairly young, who hold themselves out as experts on marriage.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Secondly, Texas has a huge and growing appetite for electricity, driven by a burgeoning population.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Morgan sees 48% with business momentum continuing for the burgeoning neocloud company.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Black Tips’ lieutenant might have wrinkles creasing the corners of his eyes and burgeoning jowls beneath his sideburns, but he looked confident, experienced.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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