growth spurt

noun

: an occurrence of growing quickly and suddenly in a short period of time
When he was 11 he had a growth spurt.

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But an industry that can only reliably fill seats for a dozen event-scale releases a year, while quietly ceding everything else to streaming, is not a healthy industry putting on a growth spurt. Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Vik Chile, one of Travel + Leisure’s best resorts in South America, has been on quite the growth spurt recently. Mark Johansen, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026 Pruitt was actively editing during Wikipedia’s first major growth spurt. Carson Griffith, New Yorker, 30 July 2026 This week offers you a mini growth spurt or glow up of sorts, culminating in a Venus-Uranus trine on August 11 that may delight you with an unexpectedly good time in a foreign land or philosophy seminar. Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for growth spurt

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“Growth spurt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/growth%20spurt. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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