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proliferate
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    Confederate monuments, memorials, and imagery proliferated throughout the South during the Civil Rights Era.†  (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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    When cell phones proliferated, you could call your buddies who might have gotten out to the beach before you.†  (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)
    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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    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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    Small errors grow heads, fictions proliferate.†  (source)
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    Dates, numbers, figures stuck with Grandpa since he strayed, and not the tiring collection of his spawn, proliferating beyond those numbers into nowhere.†  (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)
    standard 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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    Even before the calamitous outcome of the 1996 premonsoon climbing season, the proliferation of commercial expeditions over the past decade was a touchy issue.†  (source)
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    Tasks proliferated.†  (source)
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    Even his papers had begun to proliferate.†  (source)
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