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thrive

[thrahyv] / ΞΈraΙͺv /


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The area borders the vast Rose Atoll marine sanctuary, where endangered species of hawksbill turtle thrive on vibrant reefs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Instead of helping tumors thrive, it shifted the surrounding environment toward one that favored the immune system's attack on cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

To judge from the lines of young, very devoted fans snaking around the cemetery, Geese has already built the requisite subculture to thrive longer-term.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

For the lodging platform’s stock to thrive in the age of bots, it has to turn repeat customers into loyal ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“And that’s what separates the wannabes from the agents in the end. Quinton didn’t nominate ye ’cause he needed a rescuer, he nominated ye because he believed ye can thrive here.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Valentine added that by "continuing the channel on BBC iPlayer, we can ensure Scottish content thrives in a digital environment".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Today we are more likely to plug the passage into a chatbot to determine its source and then move on to social media, where rudimentary reading thrives yet true literacy withers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Leveraging cuteness to sell products isn’t exactly a new phenomenon — just ask the toy industry, which thrives on getting kids and young adults invested in collecting new cute or cuddly products.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

It’s commonly believed that a divided government is good for stocks because business thrives when Washington’s hands are tied.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

We have a strong marriage that thrives on our mutual curiosity about the world.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The community of gamers has thrived despite the efforts of card issuers, egged on by tips they find in online groups and from influencers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Founded in Hawaii in the 1970s, the company originally thrived on a close relationship with the state’s powerful senior senator, Daniel Inouye.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

While the primary reason for their success is the lack of grey squirrels, Powell said they also thrived "because people look out for them".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Trend-following funds thrived in 2022, when both stocks and bonds struggled as the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates to quash rapid inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Though the marriage survived and the girls thrived, the farm failed.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Most of what we could call our charismatic megaflora was hauled in here from elsewhere, and it throve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

Japan’s economy wilted while Germany’s throve, adding several hundred thousand clean-energy jobs—part of the energy transition’s net macroeconomic benefit.

From Forbes ● Jun. 28, 2014

It’s a reminder, however, that even in the most horrific of circumstances, something remarkable more than survived; it throve and grew and eventually reached around the Earth.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2013

The big western oil industry throve; deliveries in June stood 13% above the 1956 rate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Machiavelli, describing a turbulent period in the history of Florence, said: The people perished, but the brigands throve.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones

In England, gorillas have recently lived and thriven amazingly because the keepers now put plate glass between them and the staring crowds.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the less their systems have rebelled against and have rejected, but, on the contrary, have conformed to and have thriven upon such brute-diet, the cruder are their organisations.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

I noticed the familiar names that have been transplanted and thriven everywhere.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

He that would thrive He that would thrive, Must rise at five; He that hath thriven, May lie till seven; And he that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.

From National Rhymes of the Nursery by Various

The luscious growth needs a good deal of fertilizing and care the year round, and generations of these simple folk have thriven upon it since the middle of the seventeenth century.

From Down Under With the Prince by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Jersey is home to a thriving red squirrel population, thanks to the complete absence of grey squirrels, which carry a virus deadly to their red cousins.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

But soon she was running a thriving one-woman shop with an expanding clientele.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Like so many waves of refugees before and after, these are people who took huge risks to survive, and many of them, like Omar, are thriving.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

By the time the night was over, and Dailor was alone out front saying his goodbyes and tossing drumsticks into the crowd, Mastodon showed it was still surviving and thriving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The blocks surrounding us were home to Jewish families, immigrant families, white and black families, folks who were thriving and some who were not.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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