flourish
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Only weeks later, the administration announced a large influx of unusually cheap imported ground beef before publicly identifying all of its sources, leaving enough of an informational vacuum for unsupported horse-meat rumors to flourish online.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Raphi Bloom, chair of the Yom Kippur Commemoration, said the service was "not only about remembrance" but was also about resilience and "honouring Melvin and Adrian by ensuring that Jewish life continues to flourish".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
"They could easily have moved those trams and helped the city flourish during its Fringe which puts Edinburgh on the world stage in August," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Taiwanese officials aim to develop a military drone supply chain that can flourish without relying on Chinese components.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Paradigms flourish; some then die, and others get relegated to introductory textbooks.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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His trademark flourishes included walls of windows and built-in furniture.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
If he flourishes by the time he applies to college or for a job, the decision to admit or hire will be far less risky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Johnson has apparently instituted a number of USA-style flourishes into the program.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
The piece foreshadows Saar’s penchant for transforming common items into near-mystical objects with seemingly simple flourishes that belie complex themes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
She flourishes her brilliant fingernails and breaks into childlike laughter.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Malen is not the only former Premier League player to have flourished in Italy.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"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
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
Wren was part Ute—a tribe that had flourished in what is today Colorado and Utah—and he had a twirled mustache and black eyes.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Sanctions typically push activity underground, creating flourishing black markets for goods, services and even people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
I’d had so many careful, sensible conversations at this point, with so many people, about how to extract myself from a career in which, by all outward measures, I was flourishing.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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