proliferate
verb (used with or without object)
to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation.
had proliferated
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past perfectof proliferate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Non-native grasslands had proliferated after the closing of the sugar and pineapple fields, but many thinly walled wooden plantation homes still stood.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2023
Agriculture Department had concluded that grasshoppers had proliferated to the level deemed a severe outbreak and would not only consume grasses essential to grazing cattle but also would pose a threat to the ecosystem.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
Many companies had taken big positions in highly leveraged mortgage bonds that had proliferated in previous years.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2023
The platform also co-operated with EU crime agency Europol in 2019 to eliminate a huge amount of Islamic State content that had proliferated on the platform.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
The rear garden was a tangled jungle in which every type of plant and flower had proliferated and where Clara’s birds kept up a steady din, along with many generations of cats and dogs.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
