flourish
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The theatrical flourish seems jarring, but so too is the historic moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Only weeks later, the administration announced a large influx of unusually cheap imported ground beef before publicly identifying all of its sources, leaving enough of an informational vacuum for unsupported horse-meat rumors to flourish online.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
But these cameras can allow law enforcement to identify the criminals that terrorize communities like mine and take them off the streets so that Americans at all socioeconomic levels can flourish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Having spent a decade at Barca, and risen through the ranks, Gonzalez ultimately had to depart to truly flourish elsewhere.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The Tuscan River was a huge river—big enough for houseboat rental companies to flourish.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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His trademark flourishes included walls of windows and built-in furniture.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Johnson has apparently instituted a number of USA-style flourishes into the program.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Shaboozey has cited Leone and Quentin Tarantino as inspirations in his work, and the new collection is stuffed—some will say overstuffed—with pulpy cinematic flourishes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The piece foreshadows Saar’s penchant for transforming common items into near-mystical objects with seemingly simple flourishes that belie complex themes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The card is thick creamy linen paper with raised gold lettering, with so many swirls and flourishes it’s hard to read. inia.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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She has flourished in her new role, passing for 823 yards and 18 touchdowns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Stromatolites could be more than 'just' a cradle of life where early microbial life flourished," says A/Prof. Burns.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
It said grasshoppers had flourished during the hot summer, while butterflies had been able to complete their life cycle more quickly and emerge in large numbers.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The handicraft flourished in Srinagar and later spread to other towns and villages across Indian-administered Kashmir.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Miniature flowers of countless hues flourished in meadows streaked with golden-threaded sunlight.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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For his 25th reunion, he wrote in a class update that he had nearly died of kidney failure but that his company was flourishing, making more than 30% a year before fees and expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Free from the traditional New York publishing bubble, Transit Books and Unnamed Press are building creative, distinct — and flourishing — literary houses on the West Coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
It can also help reconstruct the ecology of early Paleozoic oceans, when crinoids were among many early animal groups flourishing in reef ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
He ended decades of political dominance by dynastic parties and envisioned a national welfare state modelled on the Islamic golden age of the seventh to 14th centuries, a flourishing period in the Muslim world.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The sabre-tooth cats, after flourishing for more than 30 million years, disappeared, and so did the giant ground sloths, the oversized lions, native American horses, native American camels, the giant rodents and the mammoths.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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