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prosperity

[pro-sper-i-tee] / prɒˈspɛr ɪ ti /


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It has also rejected comparisons to the prosperity gospel, the Christian theological movement that connects faith with material or financial rewards.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

“The decisions we make in these areas today can promote peace and prosperity for decades and decades to come,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

He would press ahead with tax, welfare and economic reforms to bring about prosperity, he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Almost as obvious: The war’s end led to a rebuilding of battered nations and an era of unparalleled prosperity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

“The prosperity of God on you this morning.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Studying the composition and other prosperities the inner three planets could also improve understanding how unusual ultra-low density super puff planets formed, the researchers said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

Drawing on the inheritance of an almost folkloric wisdom, Garcia is unafraid of suggesting that passion is "a frail interlude between the prosperities of loss."

From Time Magazine Archive

That exultation is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.

From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I fear 'tis so with the novelist's prosperities.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various

Out of momentary despondencies, originating in visions like these, he always rose with determinations that nothing should come between him and his possessions and prosperities which his hand, by fair means or foul, could crush.

From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland




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