thrive
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Both Andres Santos and Youri Tielemans resemble Kobbie Mainoo in being technical midfielders that thrive in small spaces, able to rotate and connect well under pressure.
From BBC β Aug. 19, 2026
Kids need the supplies to be successful during the year, and parents, whether they’re low- or high-income, want to ensure their kids can thrive.
From Salon β Aug. 18, 2026
Yet at a recent gathering in Sacramento, those in the nascent industry continued to tout the potential of a fuel they hope will turn around and thrive.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 17, 2026
Educational choice matters because one child may thrive in a highly structured classroom, while another flourishes in a school built around the arts, project-based learning or career and technical education.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 13, 2026
That spiders do not have to dine regularly and that some can thrive as long as two years without a bite.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
Weger thrives on “kinetic energy,” be it color, texture or a pair of bedazzled Italian loafers.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 27, 2026
As a facultative anaerobic bacterium, it thrives in both oxygen rich and oxygen poor environments, allowing it to multiply inside the oxygen deprived regions commonly found within tumors.
From Science Daily β Jul. 10, 2026
The Keller, Texas, resident’s hobbies, which include travel and golf, wouldn’t replace the routine he thrives on.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 5, 2026
Bellingham, a player who thrives in big space, adapted his game.
From BBC β Jun. 28, 2026
This baby thrives on her Nana's magic touch.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
He’s thrived ever since — as a wideout and as a returner.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 9, 2026
It doesn’t help that you two were hired together and you’ve clearly thrived while she seems to be floundering.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 29, 2026
His underlying data and touchmaps suggest he is a penalty-box striker who has thrived in a fantastically well-coached system under Kjetil Knutsen.
From BBC β Jul. 28, 2026
The market for so-called GP-solutions providers has thrived during private-equity’s current downturn, which began when the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 7, 2026
Kirby’s first “Pig Stand” was in Texas, but the chain soon thrived in Los Angeles, alongside coundess other food stands offering “curb service.”
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
Most of what we could call our charismatic megaflora was hauled in here from elsewhere, and it throve.
From Los Angeles Times β 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 β 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 β Dec. 26, 2013
Shanghai catered to the mind as well as the body, however, and ideas and ideologies throve and warred in its fevered atmosphere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Orchids and parasites sucked the life blood from the trees, and throve upon their ruin; creepers strangled them and tore them down half-rotten.
From Long Odds by Harold Bindloss
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
He had thriven in the world far beyond all his expectations.
From Papers from Overlook-House by Casper Almore
I intend to take the purchaser’s first, having long thought the credit system highly demoralising to many who might have thriven and prospered bravely had not its insinuating temptations been thrown in their way.
From A Word to Women by Mrs. C. E. Humphry
They seem not to have thriven on city air.”
From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas
The smile of a man, contented with himself and with the world, was on his lips; and his belly had thriven well, like the household of an industrious man.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
More than 450 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared and before animals or plants had spread widely across dry land, crinoids were already thriving in some of Earth's earliest coral reefs.
From Science Daily β Aug. 21, 2026
“Alli was a thriving 19 year old in the midst of starting her 3rd year at UC Santa Cruz,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 18, 2026
Hichilema’s re-election to a second term—the limit under the country’s constitution—confirms Zambia’s position as a thriving, albeit flawed, democracy, according to analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 18, 2026
And a growing cohort of mostly juvenile humpbacks are thriving off New York's coast, where food is now plentiful.
From Barron's β Aug. 18, 2026
Ten years after arriving in America, Jack took out a loan, bought the company he was working for, and turned it into a thriving import company.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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