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overgrew

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past tense of overgrow

as in proliferated

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Similar calls and texts proliferated throughout Springfield’s Haitian community, triggering a tsunami of fear, panic and confusion, said Viles Dorsainvil, director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center.

— Josh Feldman, NBC news, 30 June 2026
Satellite dishes proliferated on the rooftops of scam centers in Myanmar, satellite imagery showed, and Starlink usage in Myanmar surged, according to APNIC data.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026

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As for the floral details, the look first flourished in the 1960s and '70s, and fashion has never been one to resist a revival.

— Amanda Le, InStyle, 2 July 2026
Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States.

— Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

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Most of the show's cast have thrived after House's conclusion in 2012, though millions of fans still associate them with the medical drama, even all these years later.

— Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 July 2026
Unearthed in 1986, archaeologists believe that the site was the ancient Greco-Roman port city of Leukaspis on the Mediterranean, which was built in the second denture and thrived until the fourth century, the ministry said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026

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The cyclical reality awaiting ‘naive capital’ Allianz is far from the only insurer to have prospered through recent upheavals.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 July 2026
For four decades the appellation prospered on a reputation for concentration and the firm tannic grip of Syrah and Grenache grown in its famous schist soils.

— Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026

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