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
The Rental, which is the first movie directed by the actor Dave Franco, is a noteworthy entry in the bourgeoning minigenre of Airbnb horror movies, largely for how little spin it puts on the concept.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2020
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
I do not refer solely to that rich yellow-and-violet, springtime bourgeoning which turns California into one huge Botticelli background of flower colors and sheens.
From The Native Son by Inez Haynes Gillmore
