grow

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Recent Examples of grow At the same time, the city continues to grow as a MICE destination, hosting congresses, fairs, and international events in venues like the City of Arts and Sciences or Feria València. Visit València, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025 As the days grow shorter and darker, and temperatures drop, there’s nothing quite like knowing there’s a warm, welcoming bed awaiting you at home to usher in a cozy night’s sleep, and long, languorous mornings when time allows. Hannah Coates, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025 This is how humans grow and develop and connect or disconnect. Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2025 The swarm only grew as first pitch neared on April 26, 2019. Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grow
Verb
  • This philosophy has guided their marketing approach, cultivating a loyal following that appreciates their attention to detail and passion for excellence.
    Wyles Daniel, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Married Matt and Amber Barnett overcame a little bit of jealousy and a lot of credit card debt to cultivate a stable relationship.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That developed into work as a sports agate clerk – editing and coding the different box scores for print on our ‘Scoreboard’ page at the time.
    Nicole Young, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
  • When multiple family members develop colon cancer, it's considered hereditary colon cancer.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Goldberg-Polin has become a global advocate for the remaining hostages, meeting with world leaders and speaking publicly about her loss.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The prolonged legal proceedings moved about 100 miles northeast to Kenton County because the mystery surrounding Brenda Sue Schaefer's death had become a high-profile case in Louisville.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meet Nashville's new crime-fighting Clydesdale Metro Nashville mounted patrol officer Michael Douglas squeezed a three-foot-long rubber chicken, producing an increasingly louder and closer screeching sound to try and provoke a 1,700-pound Clydesdale named Ross.
    Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Now the podcast era produces orders of magnitude more hours of political commentary than any human can consume.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • October does not typically begin with flannel-and-jeans weather, but Louisville is supposed to be gradually trending in that direction as the month progresses.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The timing fits in with recent high-profile demonstrations of new ballistic and hypersonic systems and acknowledged long-range tests, reinforcing that China is progressing in several areas.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The goal is to get a congress of 15, with at least eight members coming from Cincinnati's homeless shelters and seven representing people who live outdoors or in temporary housing.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Jonathan Taylor got the three touchdowns but was hardly explosive on a down-to-down basis.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One of the most common causes of systolic hypertension is aging.
    Angela Ryan Lee, Health, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The trial included 800 men and women aged 65 and older with a medical history of chronic low back pain lasting at least three months.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So if this plan goes into effect, the question of who makes up the Palestinian technocratic administration might certainly be one of the main stumbling blocks.
    Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Lock up your ticket and go hide.
    Chris Sims, IndyStar, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Grow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grow. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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