- present participle of flourish.
flourishing
Example Sentences
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They also brandished placards emblazoned with various messages playing on the company's name, such as "Berliners Axed, Shareholders Flourishing" and "Budget Above Staff Futures?"
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
“They’re doing this interesting tightrope walk,” said Clay Routledge, whose research team at the Human Flourishing Lab partnered with the Harris Poll on the survey.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025
Flourishing in the poor soil, rye fed people in colonial America, replenished land denigrated by tobacco growing and provided straw for animal bedding and for the manufacture of paper.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2024
Flourishing among her fellow innovators and iconoclasts, Ms. Clayton led educational workshops with Jeanne Lee and performed with the pianist Muhal Richard Abrams at the Public Theater in 1979.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024
I found in Leinster the smooth and sleek, From Dublin to Slewmargy's peak; Flourishing pastures, valour, health, Long-living worthies, commerce, wealth.
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)