thrive
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Scientists studying dental plaque found that interfering with the chemical signals bacteria use to communicate can change which species thrive, potentially shifting the community toward bacteria associated with better oral health.
From Science Daily β Oct. 7, 2026
"I had to really become a kind of worse version of myself in order to thrive in this environment," he said.
From BBC β Oct. 3, 2026
“Technology set their sights on our business, and we must survive, and thrive and grow. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 2, 2026
Some former fund board members said Breakthrough’s actions shattered the independence that allowed the T1D Fund to thrive.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 1, 2026
Besides, dry as it was, those seeds were never going to sprout, let alone thrive.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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 β 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 β Oct. 3, 2026
Trinidad said he thrives among his youthful customers.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 4, 2026
Palmer similarly thrives in-field - but on the right half of the pitch.
From BBC β Jul. 24, 2026
You forget that she thrives on sentimentality almost as much as Les does.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Schneider Electric, the maker of electrical equipment that has thrived from the AI build-out, on Monday struck a $23 billion deal to buy an industrial-design software company at a bargain-basement valuation.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 6, 2026
While the field-goal unit has mostly thrived, Evans has struggled with consistency, specifically directional placement of his kicks.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 3, 2026
The market thrived on a river trade route to India, which had become a lifeline.
From Barron's β Sep. 29, 2026
In stark contrast, since their introduction from North America in the 19th Century, greys have thrived at the expense of their distant cousins, which compete for habitats and carry lethal viruses.
From BBC β Sep. 20, 2026
But the lab, which was rechristened Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1980, thrived and expanded by exploiting its productive relationship with the Air Force and the Navy.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
According to British Intelligence, she was the only woman who went through six years of Allied undercover work and throve on it.
From Time Magazine Archive
There appeared also to be a variety of tropical fruits; figs, limes, mangoes, guavas, citrons, bananas, and pomegranates grew and throve, apparently, in the gardens which they passed.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams
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
Honour and loyalty would have thriven without the chivalrous poets, as they had thriven before them in every nation on earth.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
But the cloth trade, by which Chippinge had once thriven, had been revived, and the town was not quite fallen.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
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
As a result, China’s robotics industry is thriving.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 2, 2026
Therefore bridging that gap, from thriving without the ball to dominating with it, will take time for those wanting to do so.
From BBC β Sep. 28, 2026
Several Asheville breweries, a staple of the neighborhood, are open and thriving again.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 26, 2026
Years of economic crisis, underinvestment and political turmoil have hollowed out once thriving communities, with many homes left empty thanks to mass emigration.
From Barron's β Sep. 26, 2026
That there was a thriving theatre audience of Londoners of lower rank is in itself a significant fact.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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