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profusion

[pruh-fyoo-zhuhn] / prəˈfyu ʒən /


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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

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

And the sharks — who do not seem particularly interested in the humans, as there is no lack of familiar lunch options — do sometimes arrive in great, unsettling profusion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 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

Instead of producing beams with high energies but a low current like the cyclotron’s—that is, protons that were speedy but few in number—his goal was to produce protons with moderate energies but in great profusion.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik