prosperous
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In the 18th Century, a prosperous businessman, Thomas Knox Hannington, built a grand house on the site, and its ruins can still be seen today.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
These were the same values that had transformed Hong Kong from a barren rock into a prosperous metropolis—Anglo-American values, in short, rooted in freedom and the rule of law.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
You are a master of the prosperous pivot.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
One can readily sense the intellectual hostility to middlebrow culture, which in England dated back before the existence of a large and prosperous middle class with a hunger for culture.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
Some prosperous Frenchman had built the house in the late 1700s to house a menage of wife, children, and spinster tantes.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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