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Small businesses have proliferated in the last ten years.
Typically, some other type of vertex of higher priority than (1, 1) will start to proliferate.
This would potentially facilitate competition between microbes and reduce the risk of a small number of pathogens dominating and, therefore, proliferating.
However, reactive astrocytes did not proliferate, therefore exhibiting only a partial gliosis.
After that, both accusations and confessions proliferated at a rapid rate.
Still, venereal disease, although undoubtedly commonplace, may not have proliferated as widely as nationalists had led the public to believe.
A major problem with this approach is that it proliferates lexical entries, rendering the lexicon unconstrained.
Again, conjoined constraints would have to be proliferated to account for all of the acceptable trade-offs in the model of formant transitions.
Such theories have proved to be circular - "pleasures," "needs," and "drives" proliferated about as fast as the behaviors they were supposed to explain.