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growing
adjective as in increasing
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burgeoning, developing, expanding, flourishing, spreading, thriving, viable
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amplifying, animate, augmenting, budding, crescent, dilating, enlarging, fructifying, germinating, living, maturing, mushrooming, pullulating, sprouting, stretching, swelling, waxing
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Example Sentences
Finding this rapidly growing galaxy gives astronomers more questions than answers about the first years of our Universe.
I have always loved speed, even as a kid, and when I was growing up, I had an uncle who was into bikes.
“There is only so much I can contribute to my retirement account, he said. “I want to make sure those retirement dollars are growing as much as they can.”
"There's a growing trend of footballers to work with people from outside," the manager said.
In the Houston area, the region’s growing population also fuels the need for more health workers, said Bryan Sisk, chief nursing executive at Memorial Hermann Health System.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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