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sprouting

s prow ting

  • n  the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
  • v  produce buds, branches, or germinate
  • v  put forth and grow sprouts or shoots

  • Food gardens are sprouting up in front of San Francisco's city hall.
  • Clara, now 13, started sprouting breasts and pubic hair when she was 8 and began menstruating a year later, at summer camp.
  • This process of theorem sprouting had to start somewhere, and that is where the axioms came in: they were the primordial seeds, the Ur-theorems from which all others sprang.
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  • Pervez Musharraf in France24
    We have to attack the source where suicide bombers are sprouting. We have a fair idea of who is behind that...... we must attack those who sponsor them,Musharraf said.
  • Susan Bysiewicz in Hartford Courant
    Connecticut is taking two steps forward and one step back,Bysiewicz said. "While new businesses are sprouting up, others are wilting due in part to skyrocketing energy and health-care costs."
  • Benjamin Franklin in USA Today
    They're like mushrooms, they just keep sprouting up,said Franklin Willis, a former CPA official and Reagan administration member who testified in Washington that Custer Battles had defied government control and did what it wanted in Iraq....

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