As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
SUPERFICIALIZE
Etymology
Verb
superficialize (third-person singular simple present superficializes, present participle superficializing, simple past and past participle superficialized)
(transitive) To render superficial; to trivialize.
Source: Wiktionary
Su`per*fi"cial*ize, v. t.
Definition: To attend to, or to treat, superficially, or in a shallow or slighting way. [R.] It is a characteristic weakness of the day to superficialize evil. E. P. Whipple.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DISPERSION
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
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