prosper
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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
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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
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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
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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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