proliferating

verb

present participle of proliferate
as in increasing
to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number rumors about the incident proliferated on the Internet

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Recent Examples of proliferating Many of these proliferating jerseys are not meant to be replicas of the game gear worn by favorite athletes. — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 28 June 2026 Meanwhile, many shootings involved ghost guns assembled from kits, which had begun proliferating a few years prior. — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 June 2026 The investigation found that, despite efforts to curb their spread across the country, nitazenes are proliferating online. — Jonathan Moens — Bellingcat, STAT, 18 June 2026 The legacy cloud is built across centralized data centers, which are now proliferating around the world as AI requires more computing power. — Elizabeth MacBride, CNBC, 19 May 2026 At the time, reports of harpy eagles taking on large primates were proliferating, but there were no formal observations of it occurring naturally in situ. — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026 At the same time, data centers are proliferating, justified as infrastructure for artificial intelligence. — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026 Dodging accusations of being a control freak, feuding with other musicians, and proliferating bizarro theories on UFOs seemed more important than writing good songs. — David Harris, SPIN, 2 June 2026 Hundreds of proliferating nonprofits—focused on election integrity and democratic governance, and largely sharing the same mission and drawing from the same donors—are crowding an already bustling ecosystem of existing nonprofits, coalitions, and think tanks. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for proliferating
  1. increasing
  2. rising
  3. accelerating
  4. expanding
  5. swelling
  6. multiplying
Verb
  • As summer arrives, snow begins melting, ice hardens and rocks loosen, increasing the risk of falls and rockfall.
    — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • When patients can’t pay, hospitals absorb the costs and pass them onto people with insurance by increasing prices, studies show.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 1 July 2026
Definition of increasing
Verb
  • And each time another first-time climber reaches the top, the applause rising from the rocks below suggests that, little by little, that community is growing.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2026
  • Practices are seeing rising amputations, and hospitalizations are surging.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026
Definition of rising
Verb
  • The financial struggles led to them not being able to pay vendors, which led key brands to stop sending the retailers products to sell, further accelerating its decline.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 30 June 2026
  • The move comes amid rising demand for local asset servicing, with Saudi Arabia accelerating the development of its capital markets as part of its Vision 2030 agenda.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 30 June 2026
Definition of accelerating
Verb
  • The 585-acre neighborhood contains 5 million square feet of office space, including 250,000 square feet of medical offices where John Muir Health has been expanding.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 6 July 2026
  • The mission won't just hunt for aliens, but rather explore these habitable planets and their atmospheres, expanding our understanding of other worlds while also being used for a variety of astronomical purposes.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of expanding
Verb
  • However, due to swelling, Lasko still doesn’t have feeling in his lower half just yet.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • The pair were pushed into the body wherever swelling threatened a patient’s health, or exploration of an inner cavity was warranted.
    — Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Definition of swelling
Verb
  • The glycemic load is calculated by multiplying a food's glycemic index by the grams of carbohydrates in the serving size, and then dividing by 100.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 2 July 2026
  • Market cap is the total dollar value of a company’s outstanding shares of stock and is calculated by multiplying the current share price by the total number of outstanding shares.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
Definition of multiplying

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