- present participle of burgeon.
burgeoning
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Many have gone so far as to apply the precautionary principle here too: the burgeoning field of AI welfare is devoted to figuring out if and when we must care about machines.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
The 20-year-old Liverpool player has spent much of his burgeoning career on the left wing, but Bellamy has used him as a centre-forward recently.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Kansas City Chiefs star and burgeoning business titan Travis Kelce will be a minority owner in the Cleveland Guardians, the MLB team he rooted for growing up.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
His message adds a powerful voice to the burgeoning resistance to the technology and comes at an inconvenient time for the AI industry.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
It often involved solving practical problems or making something new, and that appealed to her considerable and burgeoning intellectual curiosity—a curiosity that had already made her an unusually proficient student at school, scholarly even.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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