Ramify

The word ramify has appeared in one Times article over the past year and only four times in the past five years, most recently in the July 11, 2010 Sunday Magazine cover article by Robert F. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Slide 8: The Ramage or Conical Clan • Internally ranked, or hierarchical, social organization • Tendency to "ramify," that is subordinate lineages split off main group to found new communities • Over time this process results in long-distance - island-hopping - migrations that resulted in peopling of Polynesia by Austronesian-speaking peoples ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the incident shows that even minor mistakes or degraded systems can ramify throughout the grid. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sitting in a studio flat in Warren Street with the windows shut, I began to recall how sound would ramify around my uncle's house in south Calcutta, always suggesting an elsewhere; around this time, I became aware that the soundtracks in Satyajit Ray's and Jean Renoir's films were as intent on capturing this elsewhere as they were in attending to the main story. ❋ Amit Chaudhuri (2010)

The point -- which I fear many Americans have ignored or denied -- is that Pakistanis are people who are suffering and will continue to suffer, as food shortages caused by the destruction of crops ramify through Pakistani society over the coming months and beyond. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Criticisms and piratical practices in any of these realms have the potential to ramify into major challenges to the conceptual structure of modern intellectual property itself. ❋ Steven E. Levingston (2010)

A second wrinkle: the repercussions from YouTube's difficulties extend and ramify throughout the greater communications system, in a way that is quite unlike Life's. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And once busts become severe enough, they prompt changes in the national mood that ramify well beyond economic affairs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As the catastrophic effects of the last eight years of venality and incompetence in Washington continue to ramify over the years, China continues to expand, and Taiwan lurches closer to China, I see no reason at present not to join the ranks of the pessimists. ❋ Michael Turton (2008)

In the wake of an actual apology from China, the melamine scandal continues to ramify as Pingtung bakeries are dying off. ❋ Michael Turton (2008)

The aorta, from which they ramify, and they are many, none knoweth the tale of them save He who created them; but I repeat, it is said that they number three hundred and sixty. 398 Moreover, Allah hath appointed the tongue as interpreter for the thought, the eyes to serve as lanterns, the nostrils to smell with, and the hands for prehensors. ❋ Unknown (2006)

These and other frozen scandals metastasize, ramify, self-replicate, clogging the cable news shows and the blogosphere and the bookstores. ❋ Danner, Mark (2008)

And these problems are going to ramify each other even more severely. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He simply took a cutting from the tree of life, and, planting it in the rich soil of his imagination, let it ramify and burgeon as it would. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There's no single answer; some analysts attributed the jump to positive sales at Costco and Wal-Mart, plus a sense that the sub-prime debacle isn't going to ramify into a broader economic calamity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[brooo], I totally [penetrated] her like 20 times a second. definitely got her ramified bro 1: [my bitch] acts like she can do whatever she wants bro 2: ramify her bro! she'll realize who's got the bigger dick.. ❋ Jm_DFB (2009)

"[I would] so [ramify her actions]" ❋ Jeezy F'in Baby (2009)

'Dude I'm [totally] ramified. [Pass] the [doritos].' ❋ Dr F (2014)