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pullulate

[puhl-yuh-leyt] / ˈpʌl jəˌleɪt /


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Those of us in my trade should remember it can generate communities and pullulate with kindness and creativity rather than conspiracy and contempt.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2024

Willows pullulate with blotchy foliage that recalls her fellow Austrian Gustav Klimt.

From New York Times Jan. 27, 2020

What documentaries will look like ten or twenty years from now, when every life, prominent or otherwise, will pullulate with digital traces, one shudders to think.

From The New Yorker Jul. 1, 2015

They pullulate as sylphs in Pope's Rape of the Lock; they appear in the verses of Drayton, Herrick, Milton, Spenser, Coleridge, Shelley and Blake.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our houses stand on acres of ground, they ascend as high as the Tower of Babylon; they swarm with columns like a forest; they pullulate into statues and pictures.

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman

Their home in Grove Terrace, Highgate – workaday Georgian moderated with 1950s wallpapers and furniture – pullulated with life.

From The Guardian Jun. 2, 2010

It urges the necessity for linking up with vital forces, but forgets that the real vital force of the German people has hitherto only pullulated under its skull.

From Selected Essays by H. J. Stenning

The majority of the little circles that once pullulated in Paris no longer exist.

From Unicorns by James Huneker

From the sea-shore to the shady green park, from the park to the dim distance, the land pullulated with people.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

His person and his power continued to develop and to multiply with the advance of the centuries, so that in the Middle Ages the world fairly pullulated with demons.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various

Mangrove doesn't stand – it floats and sweats, pullulating with malign life.

From The Guardian Jul. 28, 2011

If it takes days or weeks for protective antibodies to develop, why does not the pullulating virus overwhelm all the victim's susceptible cells in the meantime?

From Time Magazine Archive

The fierce old hen sat still, brooding over the English nation, whose pullulating energies were coming swiftly to ripeness and unity under her wings.

From Time Magazine Archive

India's pullulating contradictions obscured the view at a moment when it was more important than ever that the world understand what was going on in the seething subcontinent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contendon.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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