As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
COHIBIT
Etymology
Verb
cohibit (third-person singular simple present cohibits, present participle cohibiting, simple past and past participle cohibited)
(obsolete, transitive) To restrain.
Source: Wiktionary
Co*hib"it, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cohibited; p. pr. & vb. n. Cohibiting.] Etym: [L. cohibitus, p. p. of cohibere to confine; co- + habere to hold.]
Definition: To restrain. [Obs.] Bailey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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