- present participle of flourish.
flourishing
Example Sentences
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The Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad is still flourishing at 116 years old.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Boulder, Colo.-based Gloo provides enterprise technology and AI tools to Christian churches, nonprofits and universities—what it calls the faith and flourishing sector.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
In Jemima’s first year of high school in New Zealand, her social life was flourishing.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
Most importantly for the long term, we are seeing the EU lay the groundwork for a potential flourishing of capitalism by supporting technology and innovation and by reforming and deregulating where appropriate.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
The flourishing field of evolutionary psychology argues that many of our present-day social and psychological characteristics were shaped during this long pre-agricultural era.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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