thrive
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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
She expressed worries about the company’s debt levels, balance sheet and whether CoreWeave will be able to thrive as computing capacity becomes more readily available.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 12, 2026
Call it social justice or activism or whatever, those are just containers for the actual daily work that we do to survive and thrive.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 11, 2026
The success of Sunderland and Leeds last season demonstrated that for promoted teams to thrive, finding value in the transfer market is essential.
From BBC β Aug. 10, 2026
Middle Tennessee State was Dill’s first choice, because of their music recording programs and Lydia’s sense of where Dill might thrive.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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
Bellingham, a player who thrives in big space, adapted his game.
From BBC β Jun. 28, 2026
Algae thrives in warm, shallow waters, making the 3-foot deep pool an effective breeding ground.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 21, 2026
But fear best thrives in the present tense.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Along with the rest of the country, Gary boomed through the 1920s, faltered during the Great Depression, and thrived again during and after World War II.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 4, 2026
Sony Pictures Television’s game show “Jeopardy!” not only has survived but also has thrived over its 42-year run.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 30, 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 underlying data and touchmaps suggest he is a penalty-box striker who has thrived in a fantastically well-coached system under Kjetil Knutsen.
From BBC β Jul. 28, 2026
Perhaps a soft, thick forest where everything thrived.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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
A center of Christian culture in a largely Moslem world, the small college throve and burgeoned, in 1920 became the American University of Beirut, which is today the largest American university outside U.S. territory.
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
I intend to take the purchaser’s first, having long thought the credit system highly demoralising to many who might have thriven and prospered bravely had not its insinuating temptations been thrown in their way.
From A Word to Women by Mrs. C. E. Humphry
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
They have thriven well in Spanish soil, and harbour a colony of nightingales and other singing-birds, unusually numerous for this land of passion, where wines are rich and birds are rare.
From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert
Not a thin starveling, but a sturdy workhouse baby, who had thriven and grown strong on simple oatmeal fare.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
Eventually, they were able to buy a bankrupt silk-weaving factory, Chen said in a speech last year, turning it into a thriving business.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 16, 2026
A grassfire can reduce a thriving habitat to blackened ground in a matter of hours - but recovery is a much slower story.
From BBC β Aug. 8, 2026
A few months ago, Pinchas Cohen learned of a thriving online trade in MOTS-c — a peptide that, when injected into mice, seems to mimic the effects of exercise.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 6, 2026
South Korea's economy is thriving amidst a manufacturing boom in microchips vital to the AI industry.
From Barron's β Aug. 4, 2026
Ten years after arriving in America, Jack took out a loan, bought the company he was working for, and turned it into a thriving import company.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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