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sprout

[sprout] / spraʊt /


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The phrase has appeared almost 500,000 times across social platforms since that month, according to the analytics firm Sprout Social, with more than 37 billion impressions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

On Instagram, Diaper Diplomacy’s engagement rate is 748% higher than similar accounts on the platform, and more than double the rate of similar TikTok accounts, according to data from Sprout Social, a social-media analytics company.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Niamh Sprout wore a smattering of chunky silver rings, which complemented the long black nails she had dug into the parkway soil as Smart-McCabe did her plant demo.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

A veteran of stage and screen, Margolyes is perhaps most well known for playing Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and for being a comic raconteur on The Graham Norton Show.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2022

Telling Neville what Professor Sprout had said, Harry thought, had been a very tactful way of cheering Neville up, for Neville very rarely heard that he was good at anything.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling




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