abound
verb (used without object)
to occur or exist in great quantities or numbers.
have abounded
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present perfectof abound.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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While Friday’s moves were muted, new highs have abounded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
All year, dour headlines have abounded about the poor state of the podcast industry.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2023
Conspiracies, over how many gunmen were involved, who was ultimately responsible, and how many bullets actually struck the president, have abounded in the decades since the assassination.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2023
Over the past four decades tombs have been opened, bones have been exhumed from forgotten grave sites and conspiracy theories have abounded in attempts to determine just what became of Emanuela Orlandi.
From Reuters ● Apr. 11, 2023
It is interesting to note that the literary milieu in which Theocritus moved at Alexandria must have abounded in all those temptations which proved the bane of pastoral poetry at Rome, Florence, and Ferrara.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
