thrive
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At Chiswick, staff were watering drooping camellias and lilacs, shrubs that normally thrive in sun.
From Barron's β Aug. 25, 2026
But after years of fighting for my own bylines, my ambition now was to help my students thrive, make a living and not repeat my mistakes.
From Salon β Aug. 24, 2026
"Urgent adaptations are needed to mitigate the effects of successive heatwaves on plants and the insects that rely on them to thrive," the society said.
From BBC β Aug. 21, 2026
Educational choice matters because one child may thrive in a highly structured classroom, while another flourishes in a school built around the arts, project-based learning or career and technical education.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 13, 2026
The burglary caused another stir, but the Annex seems to thrive on excitement.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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
As a facultative anaerobic bacterium, it thrives in both oxygen rich and oxygen poor environments, allowing it to multiply inside the oxygen deprived regions commonly found within tumors.
From Science Daily β Jul. 10, 2026
Kennard could have provided a critical floor-spacing piece around Doncic, who thrives when surrounded by lob-catching centers, athletic wings and knockdown shooters.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 1, 2026
This baby thrives on her Nana's magic touch.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
“So Many Tears” throws down a gloomy gauntlet with its opening line: “Back in elementary, I thrived on misery.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 21, 2026
He’s thrived ever since — as a wideout and as a returner.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 9, 2026
As Bourdain would later explain, he thrived in a setting where actions have instant consequences: a sore back, a sliced hand, a good meal.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 6, 2026
It doesn’t help that you two were hired together and you’ve clearly thrived while she seems to be floundering.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 29, 2026
His gentle demeanor aside, he thrived on combat, and improbably, given his academic and chess prowess, he’d once been the European heavyweight amateur boxing champion.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
Jo Ellen Koenig was a pretty, auburn-haired baby who seemed normal in every way when she was born in Cincinnati on Aug. 29, 1954. and she apparently throve on formula and some Pablum.
From Time Magazine Archive
I tried Himalayan apricots, and the trees throve wonderfully, but could never, while I was in Manipur, learn to blossom at the right time.
From My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills by James Johnstone, chevalier de Johnstone
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
The two Tortoises which survived have, as I said, now lived on my premises and thriven for three and four years.
From Addresses & Papers / Collectanea by Peter Eade
The hedges and walls of Honeysuckle, Roses, and other flowering vines that surround this garden have thriven wonderfully in the five years of the garden's life, and look like settings of many years.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
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
The luscious growth needs a good deal of fertilizing and care the year round, and generations of these simple folk have thriven upon it since the middle of the seventeenth century.
From Down Under With the Prince by Sara Jeannette Duncan
The researchers emphasize that surviving is not the same as thriving.
From Science Daily β Aug. 25, 2026
The market for secondhand smartphones is thriving as prices rise, but buying used devices comes with risks.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 23, 2026
Solicitor Catrin said, since the operation, it was like "having our baby back" for the couple, who have two other children, Caio, five, and Gruff, and that Macs had been "absolutely thriving"
From BBC β Aug. 22, 2026
They appear to be thriving, and not just in the City of Angels.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 18, 2026
He grew wild, a thriving weed, a tall, quick boy, loud and proud and full of temper.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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