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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overgrowing
Verb
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Toll roads are proliferating in the US, The Economist reports.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
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The plant—largely unknown in the Western Hemisphere a generation earlier—enjoyed sudden popularity as a source of protein for feeding hogs and chickens grown in the proliferating confinement operations that gave Americans an abundance of cheap meat.—
Verb
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Not flourishing, not thriving; just surviving.—
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An exception to this rule would be Ace of Hearts, a japonica variety flourishing at the nursery entrance in full sun.—
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“Overgrowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overgrowing. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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