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Recent Examples of grow Tess Crowley—The Deseret News via AP This year the threat grew more insistent. Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Sep. 2025 The designer’s awareness of the entertainment industry’s promotional power only grew over time, with the company’s Entertainment Industry Relations department – which is still active – overseeing celebrity relationships and styling for the company’s various lines. Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025 Train yourself to look for growth that should be removed, such as tomato suckers and low-growing tomato branches, excess dahlia foliage, and tangled thyme. Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2025 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Department of Transportation created the classification of low-speed vehicles in 1998 in response to growing public interest in using golf carts to make short trips and conflict over their legality in state, local and federal law. Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grow
Verb
  • The key lies in cultivating self-awareness.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Words that call us not to manage time or extract value, but to cultivate and to care.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Consider how closed captioning, originally developed for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, now benefits millions in noisy environments or when audio isn't available.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Drought concerns in the Midwest and Northeast Widespread moderate drought has developed recently in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast, where precipitation during August was well below normal (rainfall deficits of 3 to 5 inches).
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kirk promised that her husband will not have died in vain and said that instead his message would only become stronger.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Set two years after the little robot lady went on a murderous rampage and was subsequently destroyed, M3GAN’s creator Gemma (Williams) has become a high-profile author and advocate for government oversight of AI.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The river also serves Mexico and more than two dozen Native American tribes, produces hydropower, and supplies water to farms that grow most of the nation’s winter vegetables.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Calligraphers like Mustapha produce sacred work, such as copies of the Quran, books of religious poetry, and amulets.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After progressing through one or both certifications, learners are able to obtain digital badges and shareable credentials.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But as the year progresses, carmakers are not expected to offer a lot of deals, said Cox Automotive executive analyst Erin Keating.
    Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The company argues that the traffic which sites do manage to get from users now comes from users who are more engaged and thus more valuable.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Ahead of the premiere of her new Netflix series, Too Much, written for her by Lena Dunham, the 33-year-old reflects on what got her to this moment.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • From there, they are forced to deal with an aging group of matriarchs (June Squibb, Annette O’Toole and Marceline Hugot) who covertly run the town—not to mention the cold and calculating brothel manager Enid (Margo Martindale).
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The Falcons also added aging edge rusher Leonard Floyd.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Lucky went 1,500 days in the shelter without being adopted, then everything changed.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Before all that happened, though, there was the eight-course dinner, which went totally fine as predicted.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Grow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grow. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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