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growing
adjective as in increasing
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burgeoning, developing, expanding, flourishing, spreading, thriving, viable
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amplifying, animate, augmenting, budding, crescent, dilating, enlarging, fructifying, germinating, living, maturing, mushrooming, pullulating, sprouting, stretching, swelling, waxing
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Example Sentences
“Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners was the first outfit to send me horses and we’ve had a growing relationship ever since, a successful relationship,” McCarthy said.
Nearly six months later, seemingly little has changed and there are growing questions about when — or even if — McDonnell will shake things up.
There has been growing unease amongst Welsh Labour Senedd politicians about a number of decisions made by the UK government including cuts to welfare and tax increases.
She added: "We're even growing peaches, apricots, and nectarines outside currently, something that would have been unthinkable in previous years due to the risk of late frosts and lack of early pollinators."
"They are really popular this year, and have been growing over the past five to six years," she says.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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