thrive
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The Citi team note that trend-following strategies, which typically thrive in stagflationary environments, are coming off a strong month.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 9, 2026
Scientists studying dental plaque found that interfering with the chemical signals bacteria use to communicate can change which species thrive, potentially shifting the community toward bacteria associated with better oral health.
From Science Daily β Oct. 7, 2026
"I had to really become a kind of worse version of myself in order to thrive in this environment," he said.
From BBC β Oct. 3, 2026
“Technology set their sights on our business, and we must survive, and thrive and grow. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 2, 2026
Viroids can be so small and still thrive because they are thoroughgoing, unremitting parasites.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Leveraging cuteness to sell products isn’t exactly a new phenomenon — just ask the toy industry, which thrives on getting kids and young adults invested in collecting new cute or cuddly products.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 3, 2026
The grape is also grown in places like New York’s Finger Lakes, the Pacific Northwest and in Eastern Europe, but Austria is where it thrives best.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 21, 2026
He has enjoyed huge success and is a leader who thrives on human contact, is relaxed on camera and who has extensive experience in different jobs and a strong set of his own beliefs.
From BBC β Jul. 18, 2026
Stacks of books, tables littered with essays and commentaries, piles of Jewish magazines—these Orthodox homes form one of the few demographics where the printed word still thrives.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 16, 2026
This baby thrives on her Nana's magic touch.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
Schneider Electric, the maker of electrical equipment that has thrived from the AI build-out, on Monday struck a $23 billion deal to buy an industrial-design software company at a bargain-basement valuation.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 6, 2026
While the field-goal unit has mostly thrived, Evans has struggled with consistency, specifically directional placement of his kicks.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 3, 2026
The market thrived on a river trade route to India, which had become a lifeline.
From Barron's β Sep. 29, 2026
In stark contrast, since their introduction from North America in the 19th Century, greys have thrived at the expense of their distant cousins, which compete for habitats and carry lethal viruses.
From BBC β Sep. 20, 2026
But the problems had fallen away, the village had thrived, and Jonas had relinquished leadership to others so that he could take up an unburdened life with his family.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
Most of what we could call our charismatic megaflora was hauled in here from elsewhere, and it throve.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 29, 2021
Japan’s economy wilted while Germany’s throve, adding several hundred thousand clean-energy jobs—part of the energy transition’s net macroeconomic benefit.
From Forbes β Jun. 28, 2014
It’s a reminder, however, that even in the most horrific of circumstances, something remarkable more than survived; it throve and grew and eventually reached around the Earth.
From Salon β Dec. 26, 2013
When freed of ticks and internal parasites, Wright's eight Xolos throve and multiplied.
From Time Magazine Archive
There appeared also to be a variety of tropical fruits; figs, limes, mangoes, guavas, citrons, bananas, and pomegranates grew and throve, apparently, in the gardens which they passed.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams
In England, gorillas have recently lived and thriven amazingly because the keepers now put plate glass between them and the staring crowds.
From Time Magazine Archive
I should never have known in her the sickly child whom I still remember," he said; "indeed, my friend, your adopted daughter has thriven under your paternal care.
From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Julia Kavanagh
HE that would thrive, Must rise at five; He that hath thriven, May lie till seven; And he that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
From The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes by Various
Fishing is always in reach, and of late years golf has thriven apace.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by H. C. Hart
He that hath thriven may lie till seven.
From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston
As a result, China’s robotics industry is thriving.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 2, 2026
Mosquitoes have been thriving amid the damp conditions, fueling the number of West Nile virus cases in Los Angeles County.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 1, 2026
Therefore bridging that gap, from thriving without the ball to dominating with it, will take time for those wanting to do so.
From BBC β Sep. 28, 2026
Years of economic crisis, underinvestment and political turmoil have hollowed out once thriving communities, with many homes left empty thanks to mass emigration.
From Barron's β Sep. 26, 2026
The merchant describes an already thriving sea trade connecting India and Egypt with the coast of East Africa.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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