PROLIFERATING Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

proliferating

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present participle of proliferate

as in increasing

to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number rumors about the incident proliferated on the Internet

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Recent Examples of proliferating Per public documents, G-III will invest $425 million in the 50-50 joint venture, also acquiring the operating business of the Marc Jacobs brand and managing the license, which in terms of scale means proliferating product. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 18 Aug. 2026 Clothing waste is proliferating across the globe, and Australia is one of the top garment consuming countries. — Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026 And this doesn’t solve the problem of proliferating AI music. — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026 Burmese pythons began proliferating in the Florida Everglades after their accidental introduction into the region during the 1970s. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026 Trump may be the poster child, but Big Players are proliferating across the globe. — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 27 July 2026 Tiny new Christian schools, often operating in Sunday school spaces in churches, are proliferating. — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 16 July 2026 Such impostor scams, when a criminal pretends to be a legitimate business or even a government official, are proliferating and morphing at an accelerated rate as artificial intelligence makes impersonation easier than ever. — Bill Lukitsch, Boston Herald, 13 July 2026 Hundreds of proliferating nonprofits—focused on election integrity and democratic governance, and largely sharing the same mission and drawing from the same donors—are crowding an already bustling ecosystem of existing nonprofits, coalitions, and think tanks. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026

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While increasing volumes of the oil are finding routes out of the Middle East, the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed, keeping energy prices elevated and pushing up global inflation.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Alternatively, perhaps Arsenal’s actions are driven by an increasing pressure to sell.

— James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of increasing

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Global demand has also shrunk significantly with rising prices, helping to balance the oil market and get oil to the customers who need it.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
First, rising yields due to better nominal economic growth are typically tolerated more readily, since nominal GDP growth is a primary driver of corporate profits.

— Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

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About one minute after takeoff, the Learjet 55 turned to the left and started a violent dive, descending at nearly 10,000 feet per minute while accelerating to more than 275 MPH, according to information collected by investigators.

— Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
Adoption is accelerating as the proverbial wheels are falling off the bus.

— Jason Sabin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of accelerating

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Satellite imagery has already spied an area of rising seas expanding north from South and Central America to California’s Baja Peninsula, with a northward expansion expected from there.

— Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
All six of his solo shows — Sleepwalk with Me, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, Thank God For Jokes, The New One, The Old Man & The Pool and The Good Life — have enjoyed successful runs on and off Broadway before expanding their audiences on Netflix.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of expanding

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What Bitcoin’s Market Cap Actually Measures Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the latest market price by the circulating supply.

— Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
For example, multiplying two large prime numbers is easy, but determining the two prime factors that led to a particular product is difficult.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026

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