- present participle of flourish.
flourishing
Example Sentences
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When people are free to pursue better lives, flourishing follows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
Both are flourishing and show what a little freedom can do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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
One reason they did so well in battle is precisely because the slave trade was flourishing.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
