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as in reproducing
to bring forth offspring
rabbits multiply with proverbial rapidity
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2
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
Their two-income household had dropped to one, and Fleming’s son required more in-home medical equipment, multiplying their family’s expenses.
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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
By mid-August, when the Israeli army resumed its incursions in into residential areas, Hamas’s offensive operations were multiplying in eastern Gaza City, especially in the neighborhoods of Tuffah, Zaytoun, and Shujaiyya.
—Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
In each song, there’s a gesture of generosity, of giving voice to other perspectives, of multiplying in more tones.
—Martín Toro, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
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
By mid-August, when the Israeli army resumed its incursions in into residential areas, Hamas’s offensive operations were multiplying in eastern Gaza City, especially in the neighborhoods of Tuffah, Zaytoun, and Shujaiyya.
—Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
In each song, there’s a gesture of generosity, of giving voice to other perspectives, of multiplying in more tones.
—Martín Toro, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for multiplying
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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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Without people in the loop, AI risks reproducing the inherent problems that it is meant to avoid, including discrimination, institutional incompetence and overall distrust.—
Gangesh Pathak,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The government can raise revenues by increasing the payroll tax that funds Social Security or the income threshold to continue paying the tax or raise the full retirement age.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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People would be wise to consider the ever-increasing cost of homes in the area before selling their property due to immigration enforcement fears, Gonzalez said.—
Juan Cordoba,
Arkansas Online,
5 Oct. 2025
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The water system is in most urgent need of financial help, according to the IBA, largely due to the rising costs of buying water from the San Diego County Water Authority and the lack of regular rate hikes prior to 2023.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Sep. 2025
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Many in the state are already weathering crowded emergency rooms, rising air conditioning bills and vanishing opportunities to safely work or play outdoors.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
29 Sep. 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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To develop a whole-virus vaccine, researchers must first spend months isolating and propagating the virus.—
Deborah Fuller,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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Other southern Arizona wineries are expanding with new eateries and event spaces to attract more visitors.—
Richard Ruelas,
AZCentral.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Now, Meta is expanding those protections beyond Instagram.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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And with the rise of artificial intelligence, generative science is accelerating extraordinary solutions — from mapping geothermal resources underground to discovering novel methods of energy storage.—
Melissa Jun Rowley,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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Wells also added Capital One to the list, citing monthly credit and accelerating buybacks as catalysts.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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This will prevent mosquitoes from breeding in your yard.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
23 Sep. 2025
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Roland Emmerich became Hollywood’s king of disaster in the 1990s — mainly by cross-breeding the genre with alien and monster pictures, like Independence Day and Godzilla.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 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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Many allies are already increasing defense spending and augmenting their military capabilities, but this is only a start.—
MARIANO-FLORENTINO CUÉLLAR,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Multiplying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/multiplying. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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