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Which decade is named for a period of prosperity in the U.S.?

prosperity

[pro-sper-i-tee] / prɒˈspɛr ɪ ti /


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When it comes to prosperity, it’s difficult to be charitable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

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 BBC ● Sep. 24, 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

“You must go back in, and bring home joy and prosperity to our loved ones!”

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

All the isolated prosperities of the district sprang from economising, hard driven homes, in which there was neither time nor means for hospitality.

From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He is, let him live where else he like, in what pomps and prosperities he like, no literary man.

From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

That was the view into which the comforts and prosperities of his middle age had brought him from a radicalism that had in its earlier stages been angry and bitter.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells




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