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proliferate

[pruh-lif-uh-rayt] / prəˈlɪf əˌreɪt /


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And he said its push into live events helped Netflix stand out as streaming options proliferate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

But as fried-chicken deals proliferate among its rivals, Saleh said that McDonald’s is now stuck in a “game of chicken,” with “no choice but to play.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The statewide effort to proliferate Flock cameras comes as backlash is mounting over the surveillance, including from some members of the Legislature, where the $1 fee was approved without opposition.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

“He can hear fish. So in our hanabata days, he helped ’em proliferate and he always had the best catch, but he not think beyond those kine fish.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

That one moment of it proliferates into the next by transitions which, whether conjunctive or disjunctive, continue the experiential tissue, can not, I contend, be denied.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James

ETFs that use derivatives like options to offer investors leveraged exposure to a given index, stock or asset have proliferated in recent years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

Private-capital funds have proliferated in recent years as investors seek to reduce reliance on public markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

With few regulations, hundreds of new private and microschools have proliferated.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Messages of support with the hashtag #IAmJaneDoe have proliferated on TikTok, X and Instagram, with users claiming to be the alleged victim in a bid to make it harder to identify her.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The rear garden was a tangled jungle in which every type of plant and flower had proliferated and where Clara’s birds kept up a steady din, along with many generations of cats and dogs.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

In the low-lighted galleries, painted black, deep purple and green, Evans’s proliferating eyes flitted between predators and prey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Still, the view that deteriorating housing affordability has made it more attractive for young Americans to build net worth in assets other than housing is proliferating.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 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

Tiny new Christian schools, often operating in Sunday school spaces in churches, are proliferating.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Chagrin reproducing and proliferating, as if they would ever run short.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng


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