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overgrew

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past tense of overgrow

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The network is proliferated, with thousands of satellites interconnected using laser communications links and numerous ground stations to connect the constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) with the terrestrial Internet.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026
Social media has been flooded with posts from users in Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador and Peru questioning refereeing decisions or expressing disapproval of Argentina, while messages mocking rival teams also proliferated from Argentine accounts.

— Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

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The Villa Balbi, a palazzo hotel, still flies the flag of the Republic of Genoa, where its long-ago owners, the aristocratic Brignoles and Balbis, flourished and generated a number of the city’s doges.

— Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia for more than 300,000 years before the arrival of anatomically modern humans, only to vanish after just a few thousand years of coexistence.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 20 July 2026

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Many insisted that heavy armored vehicles could never conquer the hilly terrains in which horses thrived.

— Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026
Steely Dan thrived in the age of the greatest hits compilation, and the band’s 1978 Greatest Hits collected most of the band’s popular singles on two LPs.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 17 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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