Example Sentences

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News watchdogs warned that AI was spawning a tsunami of misinformation.

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2023

Yet even as those trials were progressing, the virus was spawning a new wave of variants with the ability to evade some of the antibodies triggered by the first generation of vaccines.

From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2021

Fishing at the beginning of quarantine was productive and exciting for Bella, as it was spawning season - the fish were either large with eggs or protective over their babies.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2020

The iPhone’s superior camera was spawning a generation of smartphone photographers, and because the iPhone allowed developers to access its camera, photography soon became a popular App Store category.

From The Verge • Mar. 2, 2016

On two occasions I observed what apparently was spawning behavior of this species.

From Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas by Minckley, W. L.