thrive
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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
She expressed worries about the company’s debt levels, balance sheet and whether CoreWeave will be able to thrive as computing capacity becomes more readily available.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 12, 2026
Flea beetles thrive in hot, dry conditions, and farmers are no longer allowed to use as many pesticides as before, meaning net covers are Harper's only defence.
From BBC β Aug. 11, 2026
Call it social justice or activism or whatever, those are just containers for the actual daily work that we do to survive and thrive.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 11, 2026
The majority of such escapees die rapidly, unable to thrive or reproduce in novel surroundings.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
"This offending thrives in secrecy online and behind closed doors. It is the job of the criminal justice system to bring it out into the open to deliver for victims and survivors."
From BBC β Jul. 2, 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
Algae thrives in warm, shallow waters, making the 3-foot deep pool an effective breeding ground.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 21, 2026
“B. cepacia thrives best in saliva or phlegm. A cough can travel six feet. A sneeze can travel up to two hundred miles per hour, so don’t let one fly in mixed company.”
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
As Bourdain would later explain, he thrived in a setting where actions have instant consequences: a sore back, a sliced hand, a good meal.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 6, 2026
“The organization has clearly thrived under her caring leadership,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 6, 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
“Dubai has always thrived on outside money,” said Alajaji.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 2, 2026
That they thrived on attention, and if you paid them no mind, you took away their fuel.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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
But he throve in the army, won his spurs in India, was promoted fast.
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
She loathed the very roundness of her limbs, and the richness of her beauty, because both had thriven on the kindness of her mother's arch enemy.
From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
They seem not to have thriven on city air.”
From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas
Taganrok has thriven rapidly, as Peter the Great foresaw it would do, and has become one of the most commercial towns of Southern Russia.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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 The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes by Various
A few months ago, Pinchas Cohen learned of a thriving online trade in MOTS-c — a peptide that, when injected into mice, seems to mimic the effects of exercise.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 6, 2026
So as the heatwaves and drought persist, who is thriving, who is struggling, and will farmers have to change what they grow in a warming climate?
From BBC β Aug. 6, 2026
“Every big city in America that is thriving has a thriving waterfront,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 5, 2026
GARY, Ind.—For decades, Gordon’s Department Store was a thriving commercial hub in this once-booming steel city.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 4, 2026
One cheered-up person, one happy dog, one thriving plant.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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