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proliferate

[pruh-lif-uh-reyt] / prəˈlɪf əˌreɪt /


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But individual ticks are capable of carrying more than one disease simultaneously, and as their territories proliferate, healthcare professionals are warning Americans to pay attention to strange symptoms.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

This strategy is a long-term bet that domestic and international demand for gas continues to rise as energy hungry data centers proliferate and populations in Asia continue to grow.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Defense applications in space will also proliferate in the coming years.

From Barron's May 14, 2026

There have also been concerns that bad actors have also seized on the restrictions placed on Iranian imagery to proliferate fakes online.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2026

Phony rules, which proliferate like urban legends and are just as hard to eradicate, are responsible for vast amounts of ham-fisted copyediting and smarty-pants one-upmanship.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Some of that message is getting through to younger generations today, as well, as the information about tax strategy proliferates.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

As AI-generated content proliferates, Taylor Swift becomes the latest celebrity to seek trademark protections for her voice and image.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 2026

“The Murder Game” proliferates taxonomies of its own, which often overlap and can become repetitive, especially when the same material is repeated across different chapters.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

“With significant near-term opportunities ahead as AEC adoption proliferates across hyperscalers and as new products ramp to production, we expect Credo to beat current consensus estimates.”

From Barron's Jan. 9, 2026

With further complexity the simple internal cavity tends to disappear, and the sponge proliferates in such a way that more than one osculum is formed.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

After a bigger splash at the New York World’s Fair in 1964, Mold-A-Ramas proliferated across the U.S., popping up in zoos, museums and anywhere tourists might exchange a coin for a toy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

These privately owned e-scooters are illegal to ride on public roads across the UK, but they've proliferated regardless.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Look at the bitcoin ETFs, typical of the trendy funds that have proliferated in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Mineral extraction projects looking for copper, lithium and more have proliferated across the Argentine Andes.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

For pop, broadcast technology stimulated a thirst for new sounds and new voices that proliferated vigorously across the world.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

These massive sites, which are proliferating across the country, produce loud noise and pollution, rely on enormous amounts of water and electricity, tax power grids and inflate utility bills.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

Cook also addressed Apple's impending public relaunch of Siri, an AI assistant that the company has seemingly struggled to make competitive in an era of proliferating AI chatbots from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

With powerful AI models that can hack into systems rapidly proliferating, this, too, could be a growth opportunity for the company.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

AI-generated influencers, virtual personalities and digital performers are already proliferating online, while entertainment companies continue to experiment with AI-created characters.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Most of the work done at Langley was of the “compressed-air” persuasion, research conducted in one of the proliferating number of wind tunnels.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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