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How to use the word PROLIFERATION in a Sentence?

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It’s morally insane that a week after a mass shooting took six precious lives in my community here in Nashville, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, their first action is not to take actions to rein in this proliferation of weapons of war in our streets, but it’s to expel their colleagues for standing with our constituents.

Justin Jones of Nashville

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These findings, combined with Twitter gutting its trust and safety operations, suggest serious issues will continue to persist on the platform as it pertains to effective content moderation and the proliferation of antisemitism.

Jonathan Greenblatt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Avid TikTok has changed some aspects of our lives negatively … it has shortened our attention span and allows for the proliferation of misinformation, if Avid TikTok were to go away, it would remove one of the free sources of joy, connection and entertainment still available to anyone, anywhere with a Wi-Fi connection.

Cristina Ferraz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The pandemic spurred on a greater proliferation of re-releases in movie theaters since there were no new movies to come by, theaters are looking for more than just brand-new movies to put on their screens and with some 30 % fewer releases in the mix this year, it's no wonder that this is a welcome trend.

Paul Dergarabedian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's not only what happened here in Buffalo New York, but it's what is happening on Buffalo Avenue in Brooklyn and the Buffalo Avenues all across our nation, that's why I'm here in solidarity with the mayor, who has been vociferous of dealing with this sickness of the over proliferation of gun violence, and we're going to continue to mobilize together.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Rather than them being victims of these past warming events, our records indicate that the proliferation of plankton contributed to the expansion of marine dead zones -- regions where seafloor oxygen levels were too low for most species to survive, these conditions, with expanding dead zones and plankton blooms, may become more widespread across our globally warming oceans.

Sam Slater

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The proliferation of Russia-aligned information operations, in both scale and tempo, suggests the importance that Russia places on shaping the information environment, we've observed known actors leverage longstanding campaign assets and infrastructure to target Ukraine during the invasion, using capabilities they've invested in developing over time.

Alden Wahlstrom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We must pass legislation requiring background checks on all gun sales. We must pass legislation to make gun trafficking a federal crime. We must increase penalties for those directly involved in moving guns across state lines, and the organizers of gun trafficking rings. We must increase penalties for those making straw purchases, or buying firearms from someone legally prohibited from doing so. And we must also mobilize the DOJ against the proliferation of ghost guns.

Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What's really shocked us, since we started the company, is just the proliferation, particularly around health care, of hoax sites that are really in it for the money. They're in it for the ad revenue.

Steven Brill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

North Korea is, in most respects, cut off from the global financial system by a long sanctions campaign by the US and foreign partners. as a result they have taken to the digital battlefield to steal crypto in, essentially, [ a ] bank robbery at the speed of the internet, to fund weapons programs, nuclear proliferation and other destabilizing activities.

Nick Carlsen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While significant attention has been focused on Saudi Arabia development, Saudi Arabia development and now production of ballistic missiles has not received the same level of scrutiny, the domestic production of ballistic missiles by Saudi Arabia suggests that any diplomatic effort to control missile proliferation would need to involve other regional actors, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, that produce their own ballistic missiles.

Jeffrey Lewis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Today's action is a part of the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to put human rights at the center of The Treasury Department in April foreign policy, including by working to stem the proliferation of digital tools used for repression.

The Treasury Department in April

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The trade of these items is morally unacceptable and only encourages the proliferation of counterfeits.

Dani Dayan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As domestic violent extremists continue to use social media and targeted advertising to spread hateful ideologies and organize attacks, these companies must do a better job of monitoring and preventing the proliferation of hateful ideologies such as white nationalist and anti-government rhetoric on their platforms.

Gary Peters

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Increasing the transparency of states' nuclear stockpiles is important to nonproliferation and disarmament efforts, including commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and efforts to address all types of nuclear weapons, including deployed and non-deployed, and strategic and non-strategic.

State Department

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The United States is ready to work with any nation that steps up, that pursues peaceful resolution to shared challenges, even if we have intense disagreement to shared challenges, because we will all suffer the consequences of our failures if we don’t come together to tackle COVID-19, climate change or threats like nuclear proliferation.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The number one issue is guns getting the guns off our streets. And we all know that the proliferation of guns during the pandemic was unprecedented and troubling. And therefore, we have to double down on getting guns off our streets.

De Blasio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Lives are at stake as dangerous drugs like fentanyl pour into our communities at an astonishing rate, and we must act now to crack down on this proliferation of this deadly drug, from Tarrant County to Lubbock County, fentanyl is wreaking havoc in our communities and it is essential for parents, family members, schools, and more to get fully engaged to prevent future fentanyl deaths.

Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Tough discussions will be needed over ballistic proliferation and Iran’s destabilisation of its neighbours in the region.

Le Drian

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I support Joe Biden because of Joe Biden long record of making policy, informed by science, to deal with large, complicated issues like cancer, climate change and nuclear proliferation, more immediately, we absolutely must elect Joe with Joe Biden science-based approach to successfully lead us out of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Barry Barish

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Secretary Pompeo's claim that a nonexistent' proliferation of rights' is leading to a' trivializing of core American values' is wrong-headed.

Rob Berschinski

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There has been a proliferation of low-quality antibody tests and the antibody tests themselves don't necessarily answer any questions about immunity.

Rajaie Batniji

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

With the rise of social media, who can be an influencer or celebrity is expanded, so there's a potential proliferation of beauty ideals with social media, but given that we don't always know what's behind Instagram editing algorithms, relying on social media filters for surgical inspiration can run into the limits of what is possible or desirable to do with the human body and reinforce damaging stereotypes about what is beautiful.

Alka Menon

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Companies are on notice -- The FDA will not allow the proliferation of illegally marketed e-cigarettes or other tobacco products, to come at the expense of our children, today's action makes clear that we will continue to keep a close watch on companies and take swift steps when violations are found.

Ned Sharpless.FDA

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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