profusion
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The success of Mark Kurlansky’s 2002 microhistory, “Salt,” has given rise to a great profusion of narrative-nonfiction works that have as their starting point an ordinary thing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
A profusion of early sites is also documented for the much older colonization of Europe by anatomically modern humans, and for the occupation of Australia/New Guinea.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
On a sultry afternoon recently, Regina Myer, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, walked past profusions of swamp milkweed, rose mallows and cardinal flowers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2015
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
The citizens decked the city called after the elephant with garlands of flowers in profusions, with beautiful pennons and standards of diverse kinds.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Vocabulary lists containing profusion
The Great Gatsby
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"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Dracula
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