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Within three days, however, their numbers had burgeoned to almost 600.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes new settlements, unmarked on the maps, had burgeoned into large communities in only two or three years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Huge plane factories had burgeoned at Wichita, Fort Wayne, Oklahoma City and elsewhere.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had burgeoned into its present, enormous, throbbing form through three great influences�its port, its position as the financial center of the nation, and the great waves of immigration from Europe.

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The temporary chaperons were kind, and the friendship had burgeoned into something quite like intimacy before the "Mormon day" was overpast.

From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis