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prosperity

[pro-sper-i-tee] / prɒˈspɛr ɪ ti /


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"There is more to do to restore hope and build a stronger economy where prosperity is shared more fairly across Britain."

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Sheriff Martinez said Tuesday that while ICE’s primary mission is enforcing federal immigration law, CBP is focused on safeguarding borders and economic prosperity at ports of entry.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

“Folks are not seeing that type of prosperity hit their front door.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

The reading indicated "a decline in the non-manufacturing sector's prosperity level" in July, said NBS statistician Huo Lihui in a statement.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

But ain’t no farmer in Georgie seen thet prosperity Mr. Henry W. New-South Grady used to write about in them Atlanta newspapers.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

The incense of all prosperities sends up its smoke, the altar of all joy flames, the perfumed air circulates!

From Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac

But a sincere piety, which sympathises with all the adversities and prosperities of the Christian cause, and knows the general and especially the personal consequences of such deplorable inconsistencies, will commiserate, and weep, and pray.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox

Woe to the prosperities of the world, once and again, through fear of adversity, and corruption of joy!

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey




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