thrive
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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
Announcing that she "wants it all" before these championships, Hunt, even in these early stages of her senior career, has demonstrated a propensity to thrive on major stages, and under ever-increasing expectation.
From BBC β Aug. 17, 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
Failure to thrive, they wrote on his chart when he was very young.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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Stacks of books, tables littered with essays and commentaries, piles of Jewish magazines—these Orthodox homes form one of the few demographics where the printed word still thrives.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 16, 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
A man who thrives on proving the doubters and the critics wrong.
From BBC β Jul. 7, 2026
And all of that is before mentioning the “sell the team” chants that flood the right-field upper deck at Angel Stadium at each home game as ex-Angel Shohei Ohtani thrives with the Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 27, 2026
“A Fflam thrives on danger!” cried the bard.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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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 Chargers got another infusion of promising tight ends in the offseason, acquiring free agents David Njoku and Charlie Kolar, both of whom thrived elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 23, 2026
But Purohit took the letter to heart and moved her mom in, watching with relief as she thrived under Silverado’s specialized and attentive care.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 9, 2026
Both music and the colourful ritual of ballet thrived at the French court under Lully and Louis XIV who built upon the musical patronage of his predecessors.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
When the moisture rose above 1%, as it may during the Martian spring when the icecap melts or evaporates, the bacteria throve.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This time of bliss has justly borne the title of Golden Age, and the people in Italy then throve under the wise rule of good old Saturn, or Cronus.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
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
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In these lists he gives a surprising number of English weeds which had thriven and rejoiced in their new home.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
But it is by such as you—and succeeding generations of millions of such—that the great Tree of Empire has thriven, thrives, and still keeps in abundant foliage!
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
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
He had thriven in the world far beyond all his expectations.
From Papers from Overlook-House by Casper Almore
The market for secondhand smartphones is thriving as prices rise, but buying used devices comes with risks.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 23, 2026
Derek Mitchell, infused with infectious positivity, is looking to convert a former sugar refinery next to an Aldi car park into a thriving hub that will teach and enthuse young people.
From BBC β Aug. 21, 2026
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
It was, in the current view, a thriving, stunningly diverse place, a tumult of languages, trade, and culture, a region where tens of millions of people loved and hated and worshipped as people do everywhere.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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