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Recent Examples of grow Despite growing calls for Beijing to rein in its supply overcapacity, manufacturing accounted for around 26% of China's GDP in the first quarter, Caixin said, citing official figures. Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 July 2025 The studio is banking on the rapidly growing global anime fandom, particularly in the U.S., where enthusiasm spans general audiences, Hollywood creators, celebrities and businesses. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 July 2025 The Dodgers organization has faced growing criticism from protesters for not speaking out about the immigration raids that have been taking place in the city. Bonnie McLean, ABC News, 19 June 2025 The situation has changed, but as ‘Michael,’ Commander of the Typhoon drone unit of the National Guard of Ukraine, told me, the artillery has not gone away -- and drones are a growing threat. David Hambling, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for grow
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  • In each case, growing landlessness and the pressure to cultivate cash crops reduced local resilience in the face of prolonged droughts and other disasters, such as outbreaks of bubonic plague and cattle disease.
    Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • Spanish-Speaking Cannabis Creators Santa Tuca (Alan) – A prominent Argentine cannabis creator and community leader, Santa Tuca has cultivated an audience of 80,000+ on Instagram with creative grow-op tours, event coverage, and lifestyle content.
    Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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  • None of the potential draftees grew 4 inches or developed a different jump shot in the last month.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • The organization strives to foster a love of learning among children, develop bonding between children and their parents, build family connectivity by hosting events, and generally have a positive impact on helping families move into self-sufficiency.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
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  • Waves also impact life on land, tossing sediment onto shore that eventually becomes beaches and dunes where shorebirds and other wildlife find refuge.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Who would have thought that robots could become the unsung heroes of heritage?
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025
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  • America keeps producing more effectively and efficiently: This is progress, growth and prosperity.
    Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • An autoimmune reaction occurs when the immune system mistakenly produces antibodies to destroy these cells.1012 Your parietal cells are responsible for secreting acids that help with food digestion and mineral absorption and for controlling the buildup of harmful bacteria.
    Sayaka Blickenderfer, Health, 28 June 2025
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  • Officials, though, have insisted for months that talks are progressing with trading partners such as India, Japan and Vietnam but have not made any announcements.
    Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 29 June 2025
  • Most patients survive between two to five years after diagnosis, losing control of their muscles as the neurodegenerative condition progresses.
    Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
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  • Daniels gets his guy Aiyuk, who's the younger, and potentially better receiver.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • As New York closed in on Tuesday's vote, more investors got nervous as the polls showed Mamdani was leading.
    Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 26 June 2025
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  • The program is focused on developing its next generation of stars, as several key veterans begin to age out of international play.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • The labor force participation rate for adults aged 75 and older has also increased steadily, reaching 8.3 percent in 2023 and is projected to rise to 10.1 percent by 2033.
    Dan Pontefract, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
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  • The change will go into effect in the fall, and in the interim, colleges will have to validate the identity of certain first-time applicants who are enrolled in the summer term.
    Kaitlyn Huamani, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • As the story goes, Jackson Pollock stepped onto a canvas in 1947, drizzled some paint here and there, and God reached a bony finger down from the heavens and pressed it upon the scale of art history, tilting it from Europe to the United States.
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 24 June 2025

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“Grow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grow. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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