verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
continue
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Yet the idea of a post-apocalyptic city captivates the contemporary mind and its images continue to proliferate .
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Such cultures retain viability and continue to proliferate for approximately I week but changing the medium may extend this period.
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Since then, the work has continued to proliferate .
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These broader, qualitative questions must be raised and examined as courses for unemployed people continue to proliferate .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Child pornography is proliferating due to the increased use of computer chat rooms.
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Fast-food restaurants have proliferated in the area.
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The HIV virus is able to proliferate at an astonishing rate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As with the Casket Letters, conflicting theories concerning the event have proliferated ever since.
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But unless I am much mistaken, the ingestion of strange materials really is proliferating.
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By the 1970s, such names were proliferating.
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Fears of mortgage defaults are adding pressure to an already depressed property market, while reports of industry feeling the squeeze proliferated.
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The algae consumed waste products from the reef and under the intense artificial sunlight they proliferated in stringy green mats.
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Towns proliferate in civilizations: in cultures they remain embryonic.
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Yet the idea of a post-apocalyptic city captivates the contemporary mind and its images continue to proliferate .