rampancy

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Due to the rampancy of social media, influencers and celebrity culture, ours is arguably the most parasocial age in human history.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023

Yet, instead of becoming inured to the rampancy of spooks, the West German press continues in full cry on the spy-expos� trail.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was settling down to what he had made himself; no virtue could claim a share in the diminished rampancy of his vices.

From There & Back by MacDonald, George

To humour him, however, it might be advisable to depict him wherever he wishes in that state of rampancy which he chooses to figure in, that is, in an attitude of rampant absurdity.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Backed by a vast multitude of rash and impetuous working-men, those born "bosses" formed a formidable check to the rampancy of the two-sworded order.

From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Nitobe, Inazo