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are bulging

  • present progressive of bulge.

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They attract hostility and support in a way that often seems extreme and newspaper websites are bulging with stories about them, because they know people will click to read more.

From BBC Nov. 28, 2023

Nobody knows that better than these receivers whose bank accounts now are bulging.

From Seattle Times Aug. 20, 2022

Many hospitals are bulging with patients and short on staff.

From Washington Post Dec. 22, 2021

So now, many American museums are bulging with stuff — so much stuff that some house thousands of objects that have never been displayed but are preserved, at considerable cost, in climate-controlled storage spaces.

From New York Times Mar. 10, 2019

And if no agreement can be reached, strife spreads, even if the storehouses are bulging.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari