How to Use proliferate in a Sentence

proliferate

verb
  • Over the past 100 years, those flaws have proliferated as the use of the machine has spread across the world.
    Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In these places, the plant proliferates and spreads fast.
    Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Since the 1970s, dead zones have proliferated across the globe, and include one in the Baltic Sea three times the area of Maryland.
    Arielle Paul, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Sure, Imgur helped memes and visual jokes proliferate across the web.
    Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • This is not the first time the farms and ranches that now proliferate in the ancient lakebed have been threatened by the phantom lake’s reemergence.
    Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • As hate crimes proliferate, there’s a growing push to shine a light on bigotry.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2022
  • A night at the Gilbert Inn stands in stark contrast to a stay in the chain hotels and vacation rentals that proliferate in Seaside.
    oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Remixes of the tune have proliferated, and, in the ultimate sign of normie crossover, even made it on the radio.
    Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The hope was that the eruption’s output would simmer down, and the fissure would stop proliferating.
    Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • This has proliferated over the decades, because of the nature of the system itself.
    Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • So, too, are the school-choice programs that have proliferated at the state level since Trump left office.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 July 2023
  • Outlets that offer less healthy fare — such as fast-food joints, liquor stores and corner stores — tend to proliferate in those deserts.
    Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
  • The modern-day trio was slowed by traffic jams at the shopping malls that now proliferate the historic highway.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Burmese pythons have since proliferated in the state’s muggy warmth.
    Longreads, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The price declines are hitting EVs the hardest as choices proliferate and some consumers balk at the chance to go electric.
    Nathan Bomey, Axios, 10 July 2024
  • Online, clues proliferate—about Thiel’s ideas and much else.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Then, in the late 1940s, the new pesticide DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) began to proliferate, poisoning bald eagles in the process.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
  • And as those use cases proliferate, the C-suite needs to make sure they are being communicated to the board.
    Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
  • By the time another century passed, many of the mosques proliferating across Syria and Egypt had built towers for the call to prayer.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • Many of the folk legends and tall tales of the last strike that have proliferated online these past weeks have a similar redemptive arc.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
  • While this year hasn’t seen data collection events like the ones that proliferated in 2016, the mission of the End of Term Web Archive remains clear.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Croquet mallets proliferate, and though there is now a hedge maze in front of the hotel and framed photos from the film throughout the grounds, there is never any doubt as to whether this is The Overlook.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But in the last decade or so, these beneficial little bugs have also been proliferating in the skin care world.
    Melanie Rud, SELF, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Even more disturbing: This trend has proliferated over the last year.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In this instance, the same logic would follow: a toy movie performed well, so toy movies will inevitably proliferate.
    Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Even as these brick and mortar stores proliferate, some entrepreneurs say the future of the industry lies online.
    Nik Popli, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • On the outskirts of Hanoi, new buildings seem to have proliferated like stucco mushrooms.
    Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The impulse to text or talk while driving has provided a new danger to the roads, proliferating over the last several decades.
    Mason Leib, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2024
  • This all builds on racist attacks that far-right factions of the party have been making against Harris for weeks now, as the calls for Biden to end his campaign proliferated.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 22 July 2024
  • The internet isn’t just full of research articles and stock prices, though; explicit content drives search interest and proliferates online.
    Reece Rogers, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024

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