- present participle of proliferate.
Example Sentences
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AI applications are proliferating on people’s smartphones and in workplaces, which can create some confusion.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Much of the pleasure of this book lies in these proliferating prismatic effects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
"In fact, we observed that if we express this transporter on the surface of healthy cells, those cells stop proliferating in the presence of D-Cys."
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026
“Rapidly proliferating the problem,” Escobar added, “will be a nightmare.”
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026
Most of the work done at Langley was of the “compressed-air” persuasion, research conducted in one of the proliferating number of wind tunnels.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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