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- verb Present participle of
bourgeon . - noun
sprouting orblossoming - adjective That
bourgeons
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Examples
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While to some extent modernity has interestingly provided trajectories of religions to be symbolically more prevalent concomitant with other secular institutions, it also provides another trend to the opposite, namely the bourgeoning of subjective life religiosity.
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"Those enormous aggregate numbers cannot meaningfully be discussed, however, until there is some rough agreement about the bourgeoning share of spending that will be devoted to health care in the coming years — much of it channeled through government insurance."
Economic Arguments, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Long the bane of the NYPD, a Bronx jury spoke last week, raising the bourgeoning Ticketgate police scandal to a new level.
Len Levitt: Bronx Juries: More Woe for the NYPD Len Levitt 2011
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This bourgeoning scandal is apparently growing too big for Kelly to ignore.
Len Levitt: The Daily News and the NYPD: Blinded by Love Len Levitt 2010
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With every advance of money, he looked upon her with a more possessive eye, and felt bourgeoning within him ancient fires.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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Long the bane of the NYPD, a Bronx jury spoke last week, raising the bourgeoning Ticketgate police scandal to a new level.
Len Levitt: Bronx Juries: More Woe for the NYPD Len Levitt 2011
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Just four years ago, Google was urging Internet-users to call their lawmakers to support the bourgeoning fight for Net Neutrality.
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This bourgeoning scandal is apparently growing too big for Kelly to ignore.
Len Levitt: The Daily News and the NYPD: Blinded by Love Len Levitt 2010
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The Batmanglijs will be two of thousands in the audience at Vampire Weekend's show Saturday -- a big date on the biggest tour of its bourgeoning career.
Vampire Weekend's guitarist has his mind in Brooklyn, his roots in Georgetown 2010
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Just four years ago, Google was urging Internet-users to call their lawmakers to support the bourgeoning fight for Net Neutrality.
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