Definition of "proliferates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proliferate. (verb)

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• "The word "open" is jam-packed with meaning for those in the software/web services landscape, and as the term proliferates, it can be increasingly difficult to find two folks who agree on its definition."
• "One of the reasons that piracy proliferates is that many author’s books are difficult or unavailable to purchase in e-book formats."
• "There are those to whom the multicultural veneer -- and this mode of expression proliferates into many social niches -- comes more easily than to others, and such apprentices and journeymen find rapid and early success, toward becoming potential masters one day."