prosperous
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But life wasn’t easy if you weren’t Dutch, so Anthony and Grietje—outsiders in a prosperous but swirling city—chose to seek their fortune in the Americas.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
On its website, the group says it is a coalition of L.A. residents “promoting a safer, cleaner, more prosperous and more collaborative city.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 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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