Meanwhile, the use of oaths in such proceedings has multiplied as well.
Over the last decade, reports of proliferating jellyfish have multiplied, as have fears that they are overrunning the world's oceans.
With each successive generation, the number of probes on a gene chip has multiplied as fast as transistors have multiplied on silicon chips.
Recently, the donkeys have multiplied, as have the miniature ponies that Earl is trying to breed into even tinier ponies, with the goal of one day owning a horse the size of a small dog.
Every dollar given to the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association—"or $30, Amex, Visa, whatever the Lord leads you to do"—would eventually return to the giver multiplied as much as a hundredfold.
Her paternal great-grandfather was the chief rabbi of Aleppo during the last half century of Ottoman rule and, in line with his status and his family responsibilities, had sired an enormous brood — twenty-six children — most of whom multiplied as energetically as he had.
But they all came of professional age before serious Italian restaurants multiplied as wildly as they did over the last decade, during which it seemed that one of every three serious restaurants to open in New York had a predominantly Italian menu.
In the five years since thousands of Egyptians filled Cairo's Tahrir Square, startups in Egypt have multiplied as have the number of funds and startup accelerators.
Aid is multiplied as it helps not only recipients, but merchants.
This strains resources, and the effect is multiplied as budgets shrink.
The temptations have only multiplied as they move out into a world saturated by technology.
