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proliferates

verb as in increase quickly

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Conversely, destructive behavior proliferates in communities that condone it.

Online demagoguery proliferates through YouTube and other social media, mainstreaming hate.

Musk sparked controversy last year after he endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X. The comment and assertions that racism proliferates on the platform he owns led various companies to pause advertising.

But as the technology proliferates, privacy and civil liberties advocates say regulations have not kept up, opening the door to intrusive surveillance that would be illegal if conducted by a human police officer.

In the high Andes of Peru and Ecuador, work inspired by neo-Indigenism proliferates, casting cosmologies and aesthetics forward in time to flourish as space travel, robotics or virtual reality.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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