burgeoning
adjective
growing or developing quickly.
bourgeoning
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a variation of
burgeoning.
Example Sentences
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The Amazon site, which is seen as key to pulling in other companies, is set to take up nearly half the space, from where it will run its bourgeoning operations across Africa.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2021
These protests coincided with a bourgeoning movement to change the names of 10 Army bases, all in southern states, that bore the names of slaveholding Confederate generals.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2021
Households like Joseph’s numbered in the dozens in the 1970s, particularly among a bourgeoning community of lesbian feminists from Washington, D.C.; to New York City; to Ann Arbor, Michigan, who launched collective houses.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2019
By the early 1950s, the bourgeoning American middle class had purchased second cars, moved to the suburbs and discovered the primal joys of television.
From Time ● Apr. 14, 2016
Everywhere nature was budding and bourgeoning; the birds twittering their arrival from the south; the insects making the best of their brief span of life.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
