prosperity
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In the book’s telling, the work of Tishler and other researchers helped bring “unprecedented peacetime health, prosperity, and scientific advancement.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Her parents, who were in the military, “were able to get to financial prosperity through hard work and grit and determination,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The main plaza of San Ángel Zurumucapio, surrounded by avocado orchards that have brought prosperity to the town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Wright said the deals signed by Venezuela with US oil major Chevron, GE Vernova, a General Electric offshoot, and Italy's ENI were "critical in starting this ball rolling of peace, opportunity, and prosperity" in Venezuela.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Where was the prosperity everyone back home talked about?
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Studying the composition and other prosperities the inner three planets could also improve understanding how unusual ultra-low density super puff planets formed, the researchers said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
Drawing on the inheritance of an almost folkloric wisdom, Garcia is unafraid of suggesting that passion is "a frail interlude between the prosperities of loss."
From Time Magazine Archive
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That exultation is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.
From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the great empires of the world, all financial, industrial, and commercial prosperities of the world, have given us a proof of it, each in turn.
If it had been prosperities, it would have been the same thing—no, not the same thing!—but far worse.
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning
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