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exponential growth

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Growth of a system in which the amount being added to the system is proportional to the amount already present: the bigger the system is, the greater the increase. (See geometric progression.)

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In everyday speech, exponential growth means runaway expansion, such as in population growth.

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Several industry experts are anticipating exponential growth as European and Asian markets catch up quick with US adopters.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

School choice is out of the bottle, experiencing exponential growth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Tenev said that Robinhood handled 2.3 billion prediction-market contracts in the third quarter, and then saw another 2.5 billion contracts traded in October — hinting that the fourth quarter could continue this exponential growth.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 5, 2025

The exponential growth of AI demands equally radical human imagination and action.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

It’s been estimated that, because of the exponential growth of the world’s population, between 10 and 20 percent of all the human beings who have ever lived are alive now.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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