prosperous
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But life wasn’t easy if you weren’t Dutch, so Anthony and Grietje—outsiders in a prosperous but swirling city—chose to seek their fortune in the Americas.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
You are a master of the prosperous pivot.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
One can readily sense the intellectual hostility to middlebrow culture, which in England dated back before the existence of a large and prosperous middle class with a hunger for culture.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
Their leaders are worried that the more prosperous south may lose parliamentary seats in the future, a "punishment" for having fewer children and generating more wealth.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
But in the U.S., it wasn’t just the prosperity—because New Orleans was not uniformly prosperous, to be sure—there was a sense that everything could be replaced, and on a whim.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
Vocabulary lists containing prosperous
Life Is So Good
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Hamilton
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