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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
pullulate .
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Examples
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An error gets introduced as a poem is typed on some web site, and suddenly it pullulates and is everywhere.
H is for House : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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It pullulates its inscrutable energies before the Word.
A Space in Time 2002
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It pullulates its inscrutable energies before the Word.
A Space in Time 2002
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Hence a swarm of little school books pullulates annually, all upside down and wrong from beginning to end; and hence a worse evil afflicts us, that the English schoolboy starts with a false perspective of any given masterpiece, his pedagogue urging, obtruding lesser things upon his vision until what is really important, the poem or the play itself, is seen in distorted glimpses, if not quite blocked out of view.
I. Inaugural 1916
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The suggestion, then, by the South Central Priorities Committee one of those Orwellian-sounding entities with which the NHS now pullulates, that the prescription of Viagra or other similar drugs for erectile dysfunction on the NHS should be restricted to two tablets per month, on the grounds of economy, is in contradiction with the system's founding principles: that health care should be free at the point of usage.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Theodore Dalrymple 2011
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Doves "need to grapple with the giddy new freedom that-in spite of us-pullulates from Baghdad to Basra," wrote Kristof.
Spero News 2008
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