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We must not let them proliferate nuclear arms.
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Nuclear had proliferated before it was safe, and there were accidents.† (source)
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Confederate monuments, memorials, and imagery proliferated throughout the South during the Civil Rights Era.† (source)
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Conspiracy theories proliferated: it was a religious thing, it was God's Gardeners, it was a plot to gain world control.† (source)
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Tasks proliferated.† (source)
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How can they be pardoned for Vietnam, for their conduct in Nicaragua, for their steadfast and gross contribution to the proliferation of nuclear arms?† (source)
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Though they were extraordinarily skilled and dangerous, their powers were extremely limited because of the proliferation of iron in the modern world, which served to dull their magical energies.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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When cell phones proliferated, you could call your buddies who might have gotten out to the beach before you.† (source)
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Continuity lapses had begun to proliferate with the stealth of rats breeding in cellar corners: for a space of thirty pages, the Baron had become the Viscount from Misery's Quest.† (source)
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The curfew Saeed's parents had been waiting for was duly imposed, and enforced with hair-trigger zeal, not just sandbagged checkpoints and razor wire proliferating but also howitzers and infantry fighting vehicles and tanks with their turrets clad in the rectangular barnacles of explosive reactive armor.† (source)
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There is something exemplary to the sensation of near-perfect lightness, of being in a place and not being there, which seems of course a chronic condition of my life but then, too, its everyday unction, the trouble finding a remedy but not quite a cure, so that the problem naturally proliferates until it has become you through and through.† (source)
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There are desks set up for each delegate, and onstage there is a podium where a girl in a black suit is making a speech about nuclear nonproliferation.† (source)nonproliferation = working against an increase in something -- often the spread of nuclear weaponsstandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonproliferation means not and reverses the meaning of proliferation. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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But most remarkable of all were the wondrous and unexplained proliferations of abstract categories that seemed freighted with special meanings that never got stated and whose content could only be guessed at; these piled one after another so fast and so close that Phaedrus knew he had no possible way of understanding what was before him, much less take issue with it.† (source)
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American diplomats began holding discussions with their foreign ministry counterparts, who then had to add trafficking to the list of major concerns such as proliferation and terrorism.† (source)
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Stories in the Worldweb proliferated: the Ousters would never be a threat to Earthlike worlds because of their three centuries of adaptation to weight-lessness; the Ousters had evolved into something more-or less-than human; the Ousters did not have farcaster technology, would never have it, and thus never would be a threat to FORCE.† (source)
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Other signs of the apocalypse proliferate.† (source)
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