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The company transported tens of thousands of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean, mainly to work the sugar plantations in the Caribbean and cultivate the tobacco fields that were burgeoning in the new colony of Virginia.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2021

Three years ago, when the teams were burgeoning contenders, Washington swept Toronto in the first round.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2018

Gold fever was receding, urban populations were burgeoning, and tentative efforts at modern, irrigated agriculture were expanding.

From Scientific American • Jul. 14, 2014

After college and through the 1980s, he sang in some of the prestigious early-music vocal groups that were burgeoning at the time, including the Sixteen, the Tallis Scholars and the Hilliard Ensemble.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2014

About the lonely house of Alexander McGivins the woods were burgeoning and tuneful.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville