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