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adjective

ə-ˈbau̇n-diŋ

Definition of abounding

as in abundant

possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified a city abounding with inviting parks it's a new field abounding in job opportunities

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verb

present participle of abound

as in bursting

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

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Connecticut’s cultural capital, New Haven is an urban walker’s paradise, abounding in good eats and history. — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026 Tallulah Gorge State Park Along the border between Georgia and South Carolina sits Tallulah Falls, a small town abounding in natural blessings. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 25 June 2026 For all the tactical eruditeness and abounding energy, Bologna were their own worst enemies. — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026 Researchers have highlighted how many white-collar industries have been hit with an epidemic of ‘workslop’, with unauthorized AI use abounding in industries like IT and professional services in particular. — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 15 Mar. 2026 Most Big Tech companies have reported this earnings season — with market jitters abounding — but the world's most valuable company is still to come. — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026 Along with the small-town cliche of secrets abounding, there are fresh touches that add whimsy to this story of two families entwined through times of peace and war. — The Know, Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2025 Zhao’s first three features were steeped in documentary realism, shot with a sturdy, windswept lyricism and abounding in nonprofessional actors. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025 On the far right side, a giant elliptical galaxy appears to have a stream that connects it to a group of galaxies that exhibit spiral and disk-like features, with stellar streams abounding in that galaxy group or cluster. — Big Think, 4 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for abounding

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Price controls don't make scarce goods abundant, risky loans safe or bad choices cost-free.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
Some 350 million years ago, the Carboniferous Period was a fecund era in the planet’s history; plant life was abundant and the earth was warm and wet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of abundant

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There aren’t many good new comedies bursting onto the scene these days, but this is a worthwhile one to binge.

— Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Desperation is the defining mood, mostly sublimated and sometimes bursting through the surface, as when a man demanding his savings threatens self-immolation at the bank.

— Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of bursting

Adjective

New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania have introduced or passed legislation penalizing the practice and requiring employers to disclose hiring timelines or remove filled postings, while Texas has opened its own investigation into a major job board.

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
Maybe the sign-up flow has too many fields, the first action users need to take isn't obvious or there's a setting that should have been pre-filled.

— Kelli Behan-Aspland, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of filled

Adjective

Gleason said pursuits are typically limited to two or three police cars to reduce road chaos, but there appeared to be at least five or six in this chase on a crowded road.

— Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026
Earlier this year, Becerra was a single-digit polling afterthought in the crowded race to replace Newsom, who is termed-out.

— Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of crowded

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Johnson County, with Iowa City and its teeming suburbs, and Scott County's economically diverse cities of Davenport and Bettendorf help make the district among the most competitive in the country.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
Great teeming swarms of them, with an occasional locust seen in big buggy close-up, and shots of flying from a locust’s-eye view (the Steadicam had just been invented).

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of teeming

Adjective

But coming just four months after the October 7th Hamas attack, tensions were high, misinformation was rife, and Israel’s decades-long conflation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism had burrowed deep into the Western psyche.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Speculation has been rife for years that strong men aid their performance with steroids.

— Rob Tanner, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of rife

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Privacy seekers can cast their anchor further afield at Coral Caye, Turtle Inn’s private island that’s a 20-minute boat ride away, with wooden cottages and a brimming reef.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026
The city was also brimming with foreign workers living in camps in and around Dresden, who had been brought in to work on the railways since so many German men were off fighting.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026

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