grows

present tense third-person singular of grow

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of grows High rates push some buyers out of the market and, as demand slows, the number of listings usually grows and prices soften, giving house hunters more power. — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026 The risk grows as applied AI shifts toward agentic systems—software designed to execute multi-step workflows autonomously—where small errors compound at every stage. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026 That means that if a property’s market value grows faster than 5% a year, the owner would pay taxes on an assessed value that’s potentially far lower than what the property could fetch on the open market. — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026 That food was manoomin, or wild rice, an annual grass that grows in shallow water. — Tovar Cerulli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026 Madagascar’s natural forests shrank 27% between 1990 and 2025, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, meaning the vines on which the pepper grows have nowhere to climb. — Leah Quinn, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026 The skin in the ear canal grows outward like a conveyor belt. — David Hu, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2026 And when a guest purchases a home item, their basket grows by more than 30 percent. — David Moin, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026 Area health systems are building hundreds of millions of dollars of medical facilities in Folsom as the population grows in the city and along the Highway 50 corridor. — Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grows
Verb
  • In the sweeping farmlands near the Central Coast, a seed supplier that cultivates peppers, vegetables and fruit was hit with more than two dozen pesticide safety violations, some of them serious offenses that caused health or environmental hazards.
    — Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Like all classic noirs, Frank cultivates a sweaty, visceral realism to the main character’s desire to have a better life at any cost.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Architectural plans, programming and development milestones for the center will be announced as the project progresses.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Carroll said the team also places a greater focus on recovery, nutrition and reducing physical demands as the season progresses.
    — Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • By tonight, another person becomes more central to the story.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Tones shimmer at a distance until a pulse emerges and becomes the song’s main idea.
    — Vanessa Ague, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Almost none has completed the reorganization that produces the compounding gains on the other side.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Huntington’s is the result of a three-letter repeat, and researchers have spent years attempting to lower the levels of the RNA and protein this gene produces.
    — Anil Oza, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The song develops into a slow-burn, lighters-up jam, its long, unhurried coda like getting lost in a sea of echoing, overlapping memories.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026
  • There is a small chance for isolated Coastal Flood Warnings (highest chances Wednesday-Thursday) if larger surf develops.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The Archimedes screw gets a molecular makeover The researchers took inspiration from the Archimedes’ screw, an ancient device with a helical blade inside a cylinder that lifts water (or solids) when rotated.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The driver gets a 24-inch OLED screen, and there’s a smaller 7-inch infotainment screen in the centre.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Once Mooney plants the seed of his joke about how unhappy white Americans seemed after slavery the later images of Confederate memorial groups and white crowds at lynchings take on a surreal resonance.
    — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Mungiu craftily plants the seed of this crisis in his opening shot, set in the aftermath of a stinging act of parental discipline.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Americans ages 35 to 44 average about four hours and 15 minutes of leisure a day, the lowest of the age groups cited in the report.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Students ages 12 to 15 are invited to sign up to volunteer at the gardens and earn service hours.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Grows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grows. Accessed 31 Oct. 2026.

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