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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

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

It's not always an absolutely gobsmacking profusion of uncontrollably bizarre life, as occurred with what's aptly called the Cambrian Explosion, a period about 540 million years ago when evolution got extremely creative.

From Salon Feb. 25, 2025

She saw a kitchen garden below, planted in neat squares marked off in red brick; a profusion of herbs staked out territory directly below her window.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

But, instead of planes of all sizes and descriptions circling at every altitude, there are wild profusions of different species of fish.

From New York Times Sep. 7, 2012

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)




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