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burgeon

[bur-juhn] / ˈbɜr dʒən /


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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 dengue and Zika could burgeon in a warmer world.

From Science Magazine Sep. 25, 2023

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

God bless you, and cause to thrive and burgeon whatsoever you write, and fear no inks of miserable poetasters.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb

As anti-royalist sentiment burgeons, Bologne stages a benefit concert for the insurrection and faces a personal crisis.

From Washington Post Apr. 19, 2023

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

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

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

As the war in Gaza nears the six-month mark, the humanitarian situation has burgeoned into a full-blown crisis.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2024

Research on SPMs has burgeoned in recent years, driven in part by the possibility that they could lead to drugs able to shut down damaging inflammation.

From Science Magazine Nov. 14, 2023

Or here was the law: as his life diminished, theirs burgeoned, requiring attention.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

In era when so much about the news is just plain depressing, what stands out about the burgeoning public rebellion against Flock security cameras is just how fun it all is.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

On Monday, it said the IPO was more than 8,000 times oversubscribed by retail investors, a sign that interest in the burgeoning industry is strong.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Still, playing Olmo remains the highlight of his short but burgeoning career.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

In a bid to focus entirely on its burgeoning defense business, the company in June agreed to sell its automotive business to Munich-based industrial group Aequita for a provisional price of 350 million euros.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

“Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today—perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish—do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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