proliferate
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Synonyms
accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, balloon, boom, build up, burgeon (also bourgeon), climb, enlarge, escalate, expand, gain, increase, mount, multiply, mushroom, rise, roll up, snowball, spread, swell, wax
Antonyms
contract, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, recede, wane
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So, not only are full sticker-shock price workarounds proliferating, havens of higher learning are sinking more of their incoming dollars in ways that project themselves as sports palaces rather than academic institutions. — Eric Scott, chicagotribune.com, "Column: Spending sprees stray from colleges’ true missions," 31 Aug. 2019 Cyanobacteria occur naturally in many freshwater systems and can proliferate rapidly under the right conditions of shallow water, warm weather, plentiful sunshine and still, nutrient-rich water. — Mercury News Staff And Wire Reports, The Mercury News, "Toxic algae warnings issued for some Bay Area lakes," 30 Aug. 2019 Here, too, human activities — the creation of rice paddies, raising of huge numbers of sheep and goats, and landfilling organic material that then rots — have helped the methane-belching microbes proliferate. — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, "Who are the biggest U.S. methane emitters?," 30 Aug. 2019 At first glance, the 28-story tower in Hong Kong doesn’t stand out too much from its neighbors in the Admiralty neighborhood, where local government buildings and luxury malls proliferate. — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, "Amid Hong Kong protests, a garrison troop rotation raises fears about the Chinese military," 29 Aug. 2019 That was the first of many lies I was forced to carry for him, the weight of which proliferated my trauma. — Emanuella Grinberg, CNN, "Jeffrey Epstein's accusers had their day in court, but not in the way they had hoped for," 27 Aug. 2019 Just because everyone covers their eyes or looks the other way, doesn’t mean evil isn’t proliferating. — Carlos Aguilar, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Argentine white-collar crime drama ‘Rojo’ revels in 1970s corruption and style," 22 Aug. 2019 Incurable diseases provoke more cures than curable ones: when the black plague reigned, leaves and ritual burnings proliferated to protect you, even if none could. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, "The Summer of Shark Politics on Cape Cod," 22 Aug. 2019 Unlike other areas of the state where charters have proliferated, the school system has received few applications from individuals, nonprofits or for-profit charter operators to locate a school in the county. — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, "Baltimore County school board grants final approval for Watershed Charter School to open in September," 21 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'proliferate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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