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Recent Examples of efflorescence
Beginning in the late ’80s, an efflorescence of truth under the leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin had revealed the full extent of the Soviet Union’s horrific crimes against its own citizens.
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Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
With the efflorescence of Christianity, a religion rooted in the Old Testament, through the Septuagint, knowledge of the temple spread.
—Lynn Whidden, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
The suave, dapper figures in Motley’s pictures are among the 6 million people who escaped to large northern cities from the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration, creating the conditions for an artistic efflorescence across the country and beyond.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
This efflorescence of Russian culture was stimulated by contact with European ideas and European works of art.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
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Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
With the efflorescence of Christianity, a religion rooted in the Old Testament, through the Septuagint, knowledge of the temple spread.
—Lynn Whidden, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
The suave, dapper figures in Motley’s pictures are among the 6 million people who escaped to large northern cities from the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration, creating the conditions for an artistic efflorescence across the country and beyond.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
This efflorescence of Russian culture was stimulated by contact with European ideas and European works of art.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for efflorescence
Noun
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The 1980s unleashed a passionate wave of student protests and artistic flowering to disassemble the island’s brutal dictatorship.—
Michelle Kuo,
The Dial,
14 Apr. 2026
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Then, in the late nineteenth century, the mandolin experienced a second flowering, albeit in a different guise.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Pink Moon's name comes from the blooming of a wildflower called ground phlox.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
31 Mar. 2026
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The name comes from seasonal traditions, particularly the blooming of a North American wildflower known as creeping phlox, or moss pink, which flowers at this time of year.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Everyone stops by to give Greg advice on his blossoming relationship with Cristle.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
13 Apr. 2026
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Her devotion to her sick younger sister and a tender, blossoming romance with Pauline (Sara Giraudeau), offer a fragile lifeline.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Efflorescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/efflorescence. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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