as in flowering
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Recent Examples of efflorescence
The suave, dapper figures in Motley’s pictures are among the 6 million people who escaped to large northern cities from the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration, creating the conditions for an artistic efflorescence across the country and beyond.
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Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
This efflorescence of Russian culture was stimulated by contact with European ideas and European works of art.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
At the time, Benzion was a largely unknown and quasi-mystical interpreter of the Iberian Inquisition—which, for him, represented the perennial efflorescence of antisemitism as a racialized (and hence ineradicable) phenomenon.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
Such an efflorescence of freedom marked the zenith of liberalism in 1848.
—James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
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Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
This efflorescence of Russian culture was stimulated by contact with European ideas and European works of art.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
At the time, Benzion was a largely unknown and quasi-mystical interpreter of the Iberian Inquisition—which, for him, represented the perennial efflorescence of antisemitism as a racialized (and hence ineradicable) phenomenon.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
Such an efflorescence of freedom marked the zenith of liberalism in 1848.
—James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for efflorescence
flowering
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With a long flowering period from spring through summer, oleander makes a beautiful hedge that’s tolerant to heat, drought, and salt.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
18 Apr. 2025
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His paintings frequently depict flowering trees, grassy fields and blue swimming pools under languid skies.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Efflorescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/efflorescence. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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