flourish
Example Sentences
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As her husband oversaw the country’s economic collapse, Flores’s family patronage system flourished.
No wonder venture firm Andreessen Horowitz recently raised $15 billion to invest in companies “that generate human flourishing: biology, health, defense, public safety, education, and entertainment.”
From MarketWatch
Philadelphia Fed President Anna Paulson said monetary policy credibility is key for both lowering inflation and creating conditions that allow the economy to flourish.
Later, a stranger gleefully approaches Kornev, convinced he knows him, and the effect is chilling — a glitch in the matrix in which human connection briefly flourishes.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet another says that while the first film had its "propaganda intent ...wrapped in pacy racy story telling with terrific musical flourishes", the sequel is simply not as enjoyable.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
