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as in reproducing
to bring forth offspring
rabbits multiply with proverbial rapidity
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as in increasing
to make greater in size, amount, or number
the booming economy multiplied the wealth of investors
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as in rising
to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number
with each attempt the problems multiplied
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Recent Examples of multiplying
Budgets are swelling, pilots are multiplying and the hype machine rolls on.
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Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Across the fashion industry, circular strategies are multiplying — global SPAs are strengthening garment collection schemes, while European luxury houses are elevating biodiversity as a strategic pillar.
—Chizuru Muko, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
Their two-income household had dropped to one, and Fleming’s son required more in-home medical equipment, multiplying their family’s expenses.
—Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
And habits have a multiplying effect as well.
—Christopher Marquis, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Emails multiplying like rabbits.
—Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
The Fourier transform does this for all possible frequencies, multiplying the original function by both sine and cosine waves.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
The Iranian contribution was leveraging the R&D from elsewhere in Iran’s area of operations—chiefly Lebanon—and multiplying the Iraqis’ lethality.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
But unlike other new technologies, AI models are also trained by users who evaluate and rate the model’s responses to prompts, multiplying the first-mover advantage effect.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Across the fashion industry, circular strategies are multiplying — global SPAs are strengthening garment collection schemes, while European luxury houses are elevating biodiversity as a strategic pillar.
—Chizuru Muko, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
Their two-income household had dropped to one, and Fleming’s son required more in-home medical equipment, multiplying their family’s expenses.
—Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
And habits have a multiplying effect as well.
—Christopher Marquis, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Emails multiplying like rabbits.
—Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
The Fourier transform does this for all possible frequencies, multiplying the original function by both sine and cosine waves.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
The Iranian contribution was leveraging the R&D from elsewhere in Iran’s area of operations—chiefly Lebanon—and multiplying the Iraqis’ lethality.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
But unlike other new technologies, AI models are also trained by users who evaluate and rate the model’s responses to prompts, multiplying the first-mover advantage effect.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for multiplying
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Some were actively reproducing, with females found carrying eggs and males observed successfully mating.—
James T. Stroud,
The Conversation,
13 Oct. 2025
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The costs of reproducing living labor varied in response to struggle.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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The echoes of this feeling resounded clearly three centuries later in the increasing disconnect between suburban mobility and localism.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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Districts saw little improvement overall, with the average score increasing by half a percentage point in both subjects.—
Erick Trevino,
AZCentral.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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Wealthier Americans have been assisted by rising house values, lucrative stock market returns and favorable credit, while lower- and middle-income buyers have faced tighter budgets and been hit hard by rising inflation.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
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Two luxury condominium towers rising to 412 feet and 453 feet.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
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The idea of waves propagating through a barrier has been around for a long time, since before the existence of quantum mechanics.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
8 Oct. 2025
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Such a blatant falsehood making it to the press conference betrays the fact that there is no limit to how false something has to be in order for this administration to resist propagating it.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
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Despite months of military build-up, the escalation into a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in February 2022 and the subsequent imposition of sweeping and continuously expanding sanctions came as a major shock to thousands of transnational corporations.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2025
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Crews expanding a major Lake Norman-area highway cut a gas line Friday, prompting evacuations and closing the busy road for hours, witnesses and town officials said.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
18 Oct. 2025
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Jinga told Sourcing Journal Dexory will place a specific onus on accelerating DexoryView’s development.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
15 Oct. 2025
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Dark energy, which is responsible for the universe’s accelerating expansion, makes up the vast majority.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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That's brought employees from many different cultures together, rather than breeding a unified corporate mindset from its founding.—
Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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Prior to being rescued, Neve was used for breeding.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The British royal family member accessorized her look with gold earrings by English designer Daniella Draper — donning a pair of mini hoops with shamrock charms in gold, further augmenting the fall shades of her ensemble.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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The offense and entire team were built around augmenting his greatness.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Multiplying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/multiplying. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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