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prosperity

[pro-sper-i-tee] / prɒˈspɛr ɪ ti /


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"It is with great esteem that I wish to acknowledge Your Excellency's strong leadership in guiding your country toward national prosperity with the spirit of a true patriot."

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

But it warned that that prosperity was fragmented, with vulnerable countries falling even further behind.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

He renounced the prosperity gospel he once had preached, wrote a raw and wrenching biography about his missteps and vowed to work with the needy and most vulnerable when he was released.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

It reflected the reality of international trade, critical first to the colonies’ survival and then to their prosperity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The many strikes that characterized the year 1919 came at a time when American industry stood at the threshold of a long period of unprecedented growth and prosperity.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

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

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

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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