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prosper

[pros-per] / ˈprɒs pər /


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Shouldn’t a museum, of all places, be a place where complex dialogues about art and humanity can prosper?

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

"I know he wants the country to prosper."

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

“We can make it so they can prosper, but we prosper with them,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

This particular grift may have failed, but in a world built on massive structural inequality, grifters tend to prosper.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

The mammoths of Wrangel continued to prosper for a few more millennia, then suddenly disappeared about 4,000 years ago, just when the first humans reached the island.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Yet to our mind the remarkable news of this anniversary is that our free republic has stood for a quarter millennium and prospers still.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

In his budget speech, Champagne warned that Canada is facing "a time of profound change" and that "bold and swift action is needed" to ensure the country prospers.

From BBC Nov. 4, 2025

Western analysts say the counteroffensive, even if it prospers, won’t end the war which started with Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

From Washington Times Jul. 4, 2023

Now the area prospers largely from the tourist trade.

From Seattle Times May 22, 2023

For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Unlike others who prospered economically under Chávez, Betancourt and his associates didn't seem to identify ideologically with the late president's movement.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Unyoked from racial prejudices and prohibitions, Eston’s progeny prospered.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

The U.S. has prospered for many reasons: a vast internal market, ample natural resources, a homeland unravaged by war and universal basic education.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

There were busts as well as booms - oil has always been a volatile commodity - but on the whole Aberdeen prospered, with the Granite City acquiring a new nickname: Europe's oil capital.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

As the centuries passed, the little city prospered.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Despite rising computer-memory costs and a tight supply chain that have been constraining phone sales, the company is prospering.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Fundamentally superior stocks are prospering from a stunning earnings environment as well as a booming domestic economy.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

It was a more optimistic era; the generals could see their South East Asian neighbours prospering through trade with the Western world, and they wanted an end to crippling economic sanctions.

From BBC Jan. 14, 2026

AEG is prospering by executing a fairly simple business plan, said Andrew Zimbalist, professor emeritus of economics at Smith College.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2025

He was always eager for news of Caroline, who was prospering in Baltimore as the Prophet Jeremiah claimed only the wicked do.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson




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