as in to increase
to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number
the suburb's population has mushroomed tremendously in the last decade
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Recent Examples of mushroom
Almost immediately, tents mushroom on the streets of L.A.
The 9th Circuit’s Lavan vs. City of Los Angeles ruling bars property owners from calling in garbage trucks to dispose of people’s belongings in Skid Row.
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Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
Opinion: Why in the world has the cost of Louisville Metro Police's new headquarters mushroomed from $20 million a few years ago to over $70 million today, our Joe Gerth asks in his latest column.
—Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Nuclear energy startups have mushroomed, a large number of these funded by Big Tech.
—Time, 15 July 2025
The amount of battery storage capacity in the state has mushroomed nearly 2,000% since 2019, reaching 15,763 megawatts as of Jan. 31 of this year.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
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Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
Opinion: Why in the world has the cost of Louisville Metro Police's new headquarters mushroomed from $20 million a few years ago to over $70 million today, our Joe Gerth asks in his latest column.
—Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Nuclear energy startups have mushroomed, a large number of these funded by Big Tech.
—Time, 15 July 2025
The amount of battery storage capacity in the state has mushroomed nearly 2,000% since 2019, reaching 15,763 megawatts as of Jan. 31 of this year.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mushroom
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Other things like inadequate sleep and unhealthy lifestyle habits can exacerbate feelings of tiredness, reducing resilience and increasing the risk of burnout.—
Nancy Pulciano,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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Trump also targeted Walmart after the retailer warned its prices would increase to absorb the cost of his tariffs.—
Ty Roush,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Since 1975, COLAs have been applied each year using CPI-W data from the third quarter—July through September—with the intention of keeping benefits in step with rising costs for essentials like housing, food and medical care.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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Of course, this gives rise to some very important questions: What are the implications for privacy when so many of us are ready to share our deepest thoughts with AI companies?—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Losses over $100,000 swell 700% Losses among those older adults who lost at least $100,000 have swelled to $445 million in 2024 from $55 million in 2020, according to the FTC.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
8 Aug. 2025
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Wound infections typically come with fever, redness, pain, swelling, discharge and discoloration.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Toucan’s carbon pool grew 400% in 2024 as institutional ESG demand accelerated.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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One rotation devours another, and still the momentum accelerates.—
Alaa Alqaisi
August 13,
Literary Hub,
13 Aug. 2025
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Over the decades, commitment to those goals waxed and waned, and numerous scandals demonstrated that the U.S. political system and important American institutions and corporations remained vulnerable to and complicit in corruption.—
CASEY MICHEL,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Aug. 2025
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The pain was similar to waxing or tweezing—easier on tougher skin, more painful on sensitive areas.—
Malia Griggs,
Glamour,
30 July 2025
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Apple Cinemas has expanded its partnership with Imax by signing a deal for five premium screens with laser projection.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Aug. 2025
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The Visual Media & Platform division, which includes anime and mobile content in Japan, also expanded.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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The world’s most valuable digital currency had climbed to roughly $124,380 around 8:30 p.m. EST, according to Coinbase data from TradingView.—
Charles Lloyd Bovaird II,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The first verses unspooled over a simple I-V-IV progression, one of the most fundamental sets of chord changes in folk and pop music, each verse ending with a brief upward progression that climbed back to the root chord in time for the next set of lines.—
Peter Ames Carlin,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Mushroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mushroom. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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