abound in/with
phrasal verb
abounded in/with; abounding in/with; abounds in/with
: to be filled with (something) : contain a very large amount of (something)
They live in a region that abounds in/with oil.
a stream abounding in/with fish
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Billionaires abound in the two wealth collations featured this month: Taiwan’s 50 Richest and Japan’s 50 Richest.
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Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Full strawberry moon June 19: Moon nears Saturn June 20: Summer Solstice
June 22: Crescent moon swings by Venus
June 26-27: Bootid meteor shower peaks
June 29: Moon covers Mars
Celestial meetups abound in the night sky this month, from eye-popping planet pairings to a crossing of the moon and Mars.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2025
Bold face names abound in its 204 glossy pages including John F. Kennedy Jr., whose mother, the late Jackie Onassis, was the subject of a 1975 pictorial when a paparazzo with a long lens and a publisher with a fat wallet, shared images of her undressed.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 12 June 2025
Ballantine, June 3 Image Flashlight by Susan Choi Absences — of relatives, family memories and a historical record — abound in Choi’s slippery and explosive novel, which hinges on a Korean American family’s fateful trip to Japan.
—Laura Thompson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Full strawberry moon June 19: Moon nears Saturn June 20: Summer Solstice
June 22: Crescent moon swings by Venus
June 26-27: Bootid meteor shower peaks
June 29: Moon covers Mars
Celestial meetups abound in the night sky this month, from eye-popping planet pairings to a crossing of the moon and Mars.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2025
Bold face names abound in its 204 glossy pages including John F. Kennedy Jr., whose mother, the late Jackie Onassis, was the subject of a 1975 pictorial when a paparazzo with a long lens and a publisher with a fat wallet, shared images of her undressed.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 12 June 2025
Ballantine, June 3 Image Flashlight by Susan Choi Absences — of relatives, family memories and a historical record — abound in Choi’s slippery and explosive novel, which hinges on a Korean American family’s fateful trip to Japan.
—Laura Thompson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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