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flourish

[flur-ish, fluhr-] / ˈflɜr ɪʃ, ˈflʌr- /






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Despite the shock treatment there was little sense the tourists will be sparked back to life to finish this series with a flourish as they slumped to 100-7.

From BBC Sep. 9, 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

The head start and imbalance add to the urgency for Taiwan to develop a military-drone supply chain that can flourish without relying on Chinese components, Taiwan officials say.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 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

Yet Alice Manfred swore she heard a complicated anger in it; something hostile that disguised itself as flourish and roaring seduction.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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

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 Aug. 13, 2026

Even the song Rock Music is full of manipulated vocals and electronic flourishes.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Soon I will need an apprentice and a gardener, too, for my garden flourishes like the first Eden.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

"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

During the wet spring, she said, undergrowth flourished, leaving an enormous layer of tinder once heat waves took hold in June.

From Los Angeles Times 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

At the same time that Mayan civilization was developing, the Olmecs, sometimes called Mexico’s “Mother Culture,” flourished in the Valley of Mexico.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

In his most influential work, the Scots thinker united a set of economic precepts into a vision of human flourishing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 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

It was trying to explain, describe, and systematize musical practices that were already flourishing because people liked the way they sounded.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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