proliferate
verb (used with or without object)
to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation.
proliferating
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present participleof proliferate.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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HOAs are proliferating because of the need for an entity to manage common spaces.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Cook also addressed Apple's impending public relaunch of Siri, an AI assistant that the company has seemingly struggled to make competitive in an era of proliferating AI chatbots from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Tiny new Christian schools, often operating in Sunday school spaces in churches, are proliferating.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
With powerful AI models that can hack into systems rapidly proliferating, this, too, could be a growth opportunity for the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Even boys’ names—which have always been scarcer than girls’—have been proliferating wildly.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
