as in to burst
to be copiously supplied a city that abounds with art museums and private galleries

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Recent Examples of abound Because, obviously, spoilers abound. Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2025 The pieces extending the collection kept spotlighting the boldness of gold and playing with talismans centered on key themes of the brand, such as the evil eye symbol abounding on necklaces and minimal earrings and rings nodding to the shape of the snake. Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025 Coming off the best season in program history, expectations still abound for TCU women’s basketball, which was selected to be Big 12 champion in the conference’s preseason coaches poll for the first time. Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2025 Ribbons of red and orange light shoot across the screen in the wake of Ares’ motorcycle; energetic chases and hand-to-hand battles abound throughout the film’s 2-hour run time. Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for abound
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  • Simpson has burst onto the scene in his first year as the Alabama starter after taking over for Jalen Milroe.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • About 700,000 years later, the strait burst open again, and a brutal megaflood filled the Mediterranean in a matter of months.
    Big Think, Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • The air buzzed with laughter, connection, and anticipation.
    Essence, Essence, 20 Oct. 2025
  • On Trend Attendees were buzzing about the opportunities digital printing brings to denim.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • The movie, which runs two hours and forty-one minutes, is stuffed with fast-moving, complicated action and intricate dialogue, and the editing intercuts quickly among its teeming array of places, events, and characters.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
  • These technologies are revolutionizing humanity’s ability to catalog Earth’s species, which are estimated to number 8 million—though perhaps far, far more—by illuminating the teeming life that so often eludes human observation.
    Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • Coiling is a procedure used to block blood flow to the aneurysm, which is a weakened or bulging artery wall, John Hopkins Medicine explains.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The amphibian slip-ons, crafted in glossy green rubber with bulging eyes perched across the vamp, were first introduced at JW Anderson’s fall 2023 menswear show in Milan.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025

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