flourishing

Example Sentences

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Instead of flourishing, people become abstractions within systems optimized for performance.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad is still flourishing at 116 years old.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

In Jemima’s first year of high school in New Zealand, her social life was flourishing.

From Slate • May 12, 2026

But Navy Federal Credit Union chief economist Heather Long called it "a split-screen economy" where companies and investors involved in artificial intelligence are flourishing while middle- and moderate-income households grapple with cost hikes.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

The sabre-tooth cats, after flourishing for more than 30 million years, disappeared, and so did the giant ground sloths, the oversized lions, native American horses, native American camels, the giant rodents and the mammoths.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari