I feel like I see less imitation and more invention in work today--particularly in that of young poets--and I think this is caused in part by the explosion of publishing possibilities both online and in print.
In the last decade, Scrabble has enjoyed a renaissance, thanks in part to the explosion of online games like Lexulous.
In the UK the issue has rocketed up the political agenda, in part by the explosion of startups emerging from the country.
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Dakota Joe hadn't heard that North Dakota had recently been experiencing an energy boom, thanks in large part to the explosion of the natural gas and oil industries in the region.
Thanks in large part to the explosion of mobile devices, people are watching more YouTube than ever before.
The laborers building the vacation retreats of the privileged in my village — part of the explosion of cheap labor that has helped build private fortunes in India and abroad — are refugees from the part of India where longstanding feudal cruelties are now compounded by the battles between Maoists and multinational corporations seeking precious minerals.
In 2003, after the technology bubble, Merrill Lynch estimated that there were 200,000 millionaires of Indian origin in the United States alone, part of the explosion of wealth among Indians in recent years.
It was part of the explosion of science fiction magazine publishing in the 1950s in the United States, and was moderately successful, outlasting almost all of its competitors.
