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profusion

[pruh-fyoo-zhuhn] / prəˈfju ʒən /


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Many turn to a profusion of platforms allowing people to squeeze income from their assets that is potentially passive.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

But horror stories have been around forever — and never in such profusion as they are now, to the point that there is little new under the bloody sun.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 2026

He certainly is not advocating violent demonstrations but even a profusion of peaceful protests elsewhere would still require an increase in public-order policing.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2025

There’s also evidence that the profusion of bodies and nightmarish scenes that characterize Mitchell’s later work started to creep in before he went to Vietnam.

From Slate Jun. 6, 2025

The profusion of Clovis hunters’ sites within the first few centuries after their arrival resembles the site profusion documented archaeologically for the more recent discovery of New Zealand by ancestral Maori.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Gradually, painstakingly, Cohen deepened AARON’s range to include human figures, objects like tables and flowerpots, and profusions of leafy plants.

From New York Times Feb. 15, 2024

The former president had chosen Kehinde Wiley to paint his image, and Wiley responded with his trademark mix of formal portraiture and baroque profusions of decoration.

From Washington Post Sep. 7, 2022

Grande’s bravura vocal profusions and naughty wit and her collaborators’ top-shelf arrangements are undeniable.

From Slate Oct. 30, 2020

The event had its precedents, most obviously the marathon concerts that Bang on a Can has presented for more than two decades, which have offered similar artistic profusions and aesthetic collisions.

From New York Times Jan. 18, 2011

Laotse had come in the spirit of Plenydd the Light-bringer; in the spirit of Alawn, to raise up presently sweet profusions of song.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris




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