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Recent Examples of efflorescence
With the efflorescence of Christianity, a religion rooted in the Old Testament, through the Septuagint, knowledge of the temple spread.
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Lynn Whidden, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
The suave, dapper figures in Motley’s pictures are among the 6 million people who escaped to large northern cities from the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration, creating the conditions for an artistic efflorescence across the country and beyond.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
This efflorescence of Russian culture was stimulated by contact with European ideas and European works of art.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
At the time, Benzion was a largely unknown and quasi-mystical interpreter of the Iberian Inquisition—which, for him, represented the perennial efflorescence of antisemitism as a racialized (and hence ineradicable) phenomenon.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
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Lynn Whidden, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
The suave, dapper figures in Motley’s pictures are among the 6 million people who escaped to large northern cities from the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration, creating the conditions for an artistic efflorescence across the country and beyond.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
This efflorescence of Russian culture was stimulated by contact with European ideas and European works of art.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
At the time, Benzion was a largely unknown and quasi-mystical interpreter of the Iberian Inquisition—which, for him, represented the perennial efflorescence of antisemitism as a racialized (and hence ineradicable) phenomenon.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for efflorescence
flowering
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Leaves are the engines that make energy for flowering and fruiting.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 July 2025
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Pruning those floppy stems back to the lower set of leaves around the base of the plant after the initial flowering period should prompt yarrow to produce stronger regrowth.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 June 2025
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“Efflorescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/efflorescence. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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