mushroom
noun
any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
mushrooming
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present participleof mushroom.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Data centers are mushrooming, so numerous and monolithic they seem abstract, until one starts materializing on the Conodoguinet Creek in Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
More and more EU countries are being thrown in the public spending sin bin over their mushrooming deficits, with Bulgaria expected to be added Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
And they’re not new, although they do seem to be mushrooming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
But experts say such strikes will need to be consistent to hunt down existing IS cells in Somalia and stop others mushrooming.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025
Margie had three big brothers instead of one, and one day in October the whole bunch of them went out mushrooming.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
