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- noun Plural form of
profusion .
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Examples
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And she'll gently tutor guests in the adjoining tea garden on how to properly drink an Ostfriesen tea: first crackle the sugar, then drizzle cream over the back of a spoon to create wulkje , or cloudlike, profusions like those at the North Sea, and finally drink, don't mix.
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He ventured beyond his master's sober, traditional style, adding details in silk and organza that would eventually develop into the light, bright and colorful profusions of stiff, transparent ribbon that distinguish Mr. Borghi's most elaborate hats, which can sell for as much as
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DORIAN GRAY: Such lush profusions of non sequiturs, such exquisite clusters of misplaced modifiers, such delicate embroideries of empty sentences…it would be a loss, a true loss to humanity, to make a single suggestion.
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DORIAN GRAY: Such lush profusions of non sequiturs, such exquisite clusters of misplaced modifiers, such delicate embroideries of empty sentences…it would be a loss, a true loss to humanity, to make a single suggestion.
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But then again, I will have poppy profusions, as we know…;
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Which should have surprised approximately no one, not that you'd know that from the profusions of rage and disappointment -- or from the far right, happy rage -- that Obama's trip to Copenhagen came up short.
William Bradley: Why Obama Doesn't Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, Or the Olympics Rap 2009
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Generation ships that take hundreds of years to ferry colonists out to other star systems where — as we are now discovering — there are profusions of planets to explore.
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Generation ships that take hundreds of years to ferry colonists out to other star systems where — as we are now discovering — there are profusions of planets to explore.
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She spent days being escorted around the various palace galleries and apartments, through room after room filled with pictures from floor to ceiling, dazzled by the profusions of portraits, landscapes, and unrivaled masterpieces by all the great painters.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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Walking around this colossal treasure house, I found fabulous portraits of grand French connoisseurs of the period, men like Crozat, whose beautiful houses were crammed with billowing profusions of statuary, paintings, wall hangings, carpets, and drawings.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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