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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

She journeys to Chile’s remote Punta Arenas, home to the scenic Sara Braun Municipal Cemetery, a profusion of pruned cypress trees and a statue of an Unknown Indian.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

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

While speakeasies became enormously popular everywhere, nowhere did they spread in more profusion than in New York City.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

Mourners flowed down roads barely wide enough for one car, lined by profusions of pink and white bougainvillea.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2019

On a sultry afternoon recently, Regina Myer, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, walked past profusions of swamp milkweed, rose mallows and cardinal flowers.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2015

Isn’t Tolosa the proper field for your abilities, for your sympathies, for your profusions, for your generosities—the king without a crown, the man without a fortune! 

From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad




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