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prosperity

[pro-sper-i-tee] / prɒˈspɛr ɪ ti /


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“We are helping create opportunities for more skilled trades careers to build the talent needed to strengthen local economies and help drive American prosperity and competitiveness.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

"Investing in the security and prosperity of our Pacific neighbours makes our region safer and our economy stronger," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

Those investments reflected a belief that America could shape its own future while ensuring that working families shared in the prosperity that followed.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

They were once at the heart of Scotland's economic prosperity, first through herring fishing and transatlantic trade, then shipbuilding and engineering, while nearby Gourock was a popular Victorian seaside resort.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

At issue was nothing less than the path black Americans should take in their search for dignity, equality, and prosperity.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

How often do we form our schemes, and calculate on temporal prosperities, without any due regard to the will of Providence, or any proper consideration of the uncertainty of life.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Francis Augustus Cox

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

Only, the prosperities may differ in their type.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James




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