Verb (used without object) : The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.    From Dictionary.com. 

But what concerns me most is the what you describe as a burgeoning bureaucracy around citizen focus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Day At The Office « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

United Daughters of the Confederacy, and in burgeoning historical societies, an uncompromising narrative emerged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering and Forgetting] Reference

You get the picture: Soak a burgeoning and vital business to keep a dying one on life-support.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information Liberation] Reference

Did she do it to put us all off the trail of her freelance activities, namely her burgeoning spamming empire?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friday Fun: This spam is ham] Reference

Of course, I recalled the burgeoning problem of my tablet that it uses a serial port, which is occupied by my mouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference

The article begins with the subhead: “Webfolk call the burgeoning interactive use of the internet ‘Web 2.0’.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Attractor » 2007 » October] Reference

It was another immediate and huge success for the high school pals who called their burgeoning company Four Kings Incorporated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Light]

So I thought this was a very funny, again burlesque way of examining the kind of burgeoning cold war of paranoia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Them: Adventures with Extremists] Reference

From Wellington, New Zealand, the student learned that there was a "burgeoning" Net Community "in Wellington, as there were two.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution Of Usenet News: The Poor Man's Arpanet] Reference

A burgeoning Baghdad subculture of computer gamers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuning In, Turning On] Reference

Lasseter preferred to stay with his burgeoning Pixar team.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Tech In Toon Town] Reference

He is a member of a burgeoning subculture: young Islamic America.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Islam] Reference

Each volume of the burgeoning "Live Phish" collection has its highlights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Go Phish] Reference

And for Winfrey's burgeoning multimedia empire, the timing couldn't be better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oprah's Going Glossy] Reference

The burgeoning field known as tissue engineering didn't even exist 15 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Replacement Parts] Reference

And his program will rely on a burgeoning collection of successful local service corps.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Ask Not'--'90S Style] Reference

But the country's burgeoning alternative culture is most apparent in the retail sphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond The Glitz] Reference

For others, catering to the burgeoning Gulf market is simply part of a grand global plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketing: Definitely Not In A Bikini] Reference

This last is the burgeoning part of the consultant population that has come to interest me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Consultant Explosion] Reference

The global market for animal parts is burgeoning, and American wildlife is bearing the brunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Killing Fields] Reference

Meanwhile, free markets and open borders have brought AIDS to China's burgeoning coastal cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Freedom To Fear: When Aids Hits China] Reference

But only a decade later pro-team ownership is at the heart of Disney's burgeoning sports empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cartoons Sure Were Easier] Reference

(Similarly, American troops were not permitted to stop the burgeoning drug trade in Afghanistan.).    From Wordnik.com.  [HOW TO WIN THE 'NETWAR' IN IRAQ] Reference

A hundred years ago, a burgeoning, land-hungry population killed off the last of Germany's wolves.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTO THE WOODS] Reference

Patrons like Clements had moved on, and the burgeoning multiservice program had grown hugely complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind Of A Missile] Reference

Spearhead of the burgeoning black movie presence, will his upcoming "Malcolm X" epic be hyped beyond hope?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newsweek 100] Reference

But a burgeoning body of research now suggests that the core of all autism is a syndrome known as mindblindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding Autism] Reference

They believe that the government is circumventing the ceasefire by sponsoring the burgeoning paramilitary movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [After The Massacre] Reference

Amid a national outcry for accountability, testing is burgeoning - to a record 127 million exams each year, by one count.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Meets Lake Wobegon] Reference

What many Phish fans don't want you to know about is the burgeoning subculture surrounding this decidedly quirky quartet.    From Wordnik.com.  [In A Pond Of Their Own] Reference

Last month Google CFO George Reyes conceded that click fraud was a significant threat to his firm's burgeoning bottom line.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHEN MICE ATTACK] Reference

And Mizrahi gathered his staff and told them he would be closing the business and concentrating on his burgeoning film career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizrahi's Final Bow] Reference

And at all levels of government, there's new incentive to "privatize" a personal share of the country's burgeoning oil wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Much Money] Reference

Plus, I'd be working with a burgeoning biotechnology group along with two of my favorite mentors and a few of my closest friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary Of A Job Hunter, Day Four] Reference

As new niche sites pop up, the world's most popular existing social sites are expanding their nets to catch the burgeoning 50-plus market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netting Friends Online] Reference

But there is a burgeoning intellectual industry devoted to multiplying the number of behaviors that are said to be beyond rational control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intolerable Tolerance] Reference