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prosper

[pros-per] / ˈprɒs pər /


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"I know he wants the country to prosper."

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

“We can make it so they can prosper, but we prosper with them,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

This particular grift may have failed, but in a world built on massive structural inequality, grifters tend to prosper.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

But Domino’s can still prosper with its share.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Public subsidy allowed formats that had become financially unviable - such as the nineteenth-century symphony orchestra - to prosper somewhat artificially in the twentieth century, justified by the preservation of heritage.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Yet to our mind the remarkable news of this anniversary is that our free republic has stood for a quarter millennium and prospers still.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Tom Roebuck, another wing who prospers in the air, is only just back from a broken toe.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2026

“When Indonesia prospers, the region prosters,” Lee said.

From Seattle Times Apr. 29, 2024

Western analysts say the counteroffensive, even if it prospers, won’t end the war which started with Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

From Washington Times Jul. 4, 2023

For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Unyoked from racial prejudices and prohibitions, Eston’s progeny prospered.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

After his career prospered, he bought his wife a fur coat one Christmas and, to make the gift more of a surprise, wrapped it in a microwave box.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

With more lower-ranked teams, the world's best attackers have prospered.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Meanwhile, the state’s economy has prospered as the Governor has welcomed companies and data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 15, 2026

As the years passed and his coal company prospered, Mr. Carter had concrete sidewalks poured, the streets paved, and the town fenced to keep cows from roaming the streets.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Despite rising computer-memory costs and a tight supply chain that have been constraining phone sales, the company is prospering.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Fundamentally superior stocks are prospering from a stunning earnings environment as well as a booming domestic economy.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

It was a more optimistic era; the generals could see their South East Asian neighbours prospering through trade with the Western world, and they wanted an end to crippling economic sanctions.

From BBC Jan. 14, 2026

I would love the corporate campaign painting Inglewood as Black and prospering on its own terms — an equal partner in this breakneck development — to be true.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2024

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell




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