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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of proliferate.

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Examples

  • The phrase proliferated in the media even after Democrats dropped the public option.

    The most effective and diabolical lie of the year Greg Sargent 2010

  • Pahad added landmines, which "proliferated" southern Africa, were a big problem.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • An enlightening experience of this kind came to Goethe's aid when one day he happened to see a 'proliferated' rose (durchgewachsene Rose), that is, a rose from whose centre a whole new plant had sprung.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • Prior to the 1970s, such churches had been uncommon and mostly ecumenical or even liberal, but since the 1980s such churches have proliferated, and now serve roughly 7 percent of all Americans.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Examples of languages that have proliferated courtesy of daunting, mobile military technology include Greek, Latin, Turkish, and Arabic.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Examples of languages that have proliferated courtesy of daunting, mobile military technology include Greek, Latin, Turkish, and Arabic.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Digital cinematography, first marketed by Sony in the 1980s, has by now rapidly proliferated as a less expensive yet no less entertaining means to tell stories in moving images.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In the spirited dance arenas of Africa, the second mystery proliferated and made the gods happily crazy with cosmic delight.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Digital cinematography, first marketed by Sony in the 1980s, has by now rapidly proliferated as a less expensive yet no less entertaining means to tell stories in moving images.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • But lone-wolf extremists with little or no formal connection to al Qaeda have proliferated and are potentially plotting small-scale attacks in the U.S, officials said.

    Officials Warn of Domestic Terrorism Threat Keith Johnson 2011

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