How to Use proliferate in a Sentence

proliferate

verb

• Over the past 100 years, those flaws have proliferated as the use of the machine has spread across the world.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• In these places, the plant proliferates and spreads fast.
  — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2023
• Since the 1970s, dead zones have proliferated across the globe, and include one in the Baltic Sea three times the area of Maryland.
  — Arielle Paul, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• Sure, Imgur helped memes and visual jokes proliferate across the web.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• This is not the first time the farms and ranches that now proliferate in the ancient lakebed have been threatened by the phantom lake’s reemergence.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Remixes of the tune have proliferated, and, in the ultimate sign of normie crossover, even made it on the radio.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
• The hope was that the eruption’s output would simmer down, and the fissure would stop proliferating.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• So, too, are the school-choice programs that have proliferated at the state level since Trump left office.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 July 2023
• Many of the folk legends and tall tales of the last strike that have proliferated online these past weeks have a similar redemptive arc.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
• Even more disturbing: This trend has proliferated over the last year.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• In this instance, the same logic would follow: a toy movie performed well, so toy movies will inevitably proliferate.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• On the outskirts of Hanoi, new buildings seem to have proliferated like stucco mushrooms.
  — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
• Avoid stacking plates or dishes when wet, as Truong says this is a surefire way to proliferate bacteria.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2023
• Yemeni and Bangladeshi mosques, restaurants and shops proliferated.
  — Allan Lengel, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Reports have proliferated about the change at the helm being permanent, citing Capt. Lee’s health.
  — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
• From there, the symbol began to proliferate in the region, popping up in modern-day Syria, Phoenicia and Israel.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Of course, plenty of fakes and cheap imitators are proliferating the online marketplace in the leadup to the eclipse.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
• In a way, the two artists from centuries apart are tied together by this commercial thread, one that Brant himself continues to proliferate.
  — Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• In the early 20th century, the United States and Mexico banned hunting, which allowed that colony to proliferate.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
• Amid a prolonged and extreme drought, which has been directly attributed to climate change, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya all saw cholera proliferate over the past year.
  — Blanca Begert, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Mutations in this gene can, therefore, cause cells to proliferate in an uncontrolled way.
  — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 13 May 2023
• These small craft proliferated on the battlefield last fall, long before Russia said on Wednesday that two explosions over the Kremlin were a drone strike.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• Ever since Game of Thrones took over the world, fantasy storytelling has proliferated on screen.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• However, detractors of the move worry that the information might be used by bad actors to proliferate AI’s harms.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• But behind the scenes, the technology has been proliferating for years, along with questions about how best to evaluate and secure these new AI systems.
  — WIRED, 7 Aug. 2023
• Direct-response ads, long a staple of cable-news, tend to proliferate in places that mainstream marketers depart.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• But that has begun to change in Cleveland as the Kia/Hyundai trend has proliferated, facilitating armed mayhem in the streets, officials say.
  — John H. Tucker, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2023
• But scams and swindles have proliferated in step with the growth of informal online businesses in Pakistan.
  — Zuha Siddiqui, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• This is the story of California not as a free state but as a land of proliferating startup businesses, accelerated by the Gold Rush of the 1840s but by no means starting there.
  — Erin Aubry Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• The proliferating pickup lines seem to be driven more by necessity than choice.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024