profusion
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No background study is necessary to join the membership of Mr. Berry’s readers, though the profusion of titles might seem overwhelming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
This profusion has made the convenience store business one of the most fast-paced and competitive in the country — one that moves in lockstep with boom-and-bust social media attention spans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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
They had a pale bark, and equally distributed branches that carried an amazing profusion of leaves.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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
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
They believed in the autocracy of the individual imagination none the less because their mission was to divine nature and to understand her, rather than to correct her profusions in the name of art.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)
Vocabulary lists containing profusion
The Great Gatsby
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"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Dracula
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