thrive
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“The water is so pure you can drink it,” it read, “so clean even rainbow trout will thrive in it.”
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 3, 2026
They are letting go of the view that home ownership is necessary for financial success and trying to thrive by writing a new script to building wealth that provides ample room for saving and investing.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 2, 2026
As long as they were in the right setup, they could thrive.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 28, 2026
At Chiswick, staff were watering drooping camellias and lilacs, shrubs that normally thrive in sun.
From Barron's β Aug. 25, 2026
Only when European settlers arrived by sea in 1652, bringing with them their Fertile Crescent crop package, could agriculture thrive in South Africa’s Mediterranean zone.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The herd at Smiling Buddha Yaks thrives in Colorado’s alpine climate.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 8, 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
The Keller, Texas, resident’s hobbies, which include travel and golf, wouldn’t replace the routine he thrives on.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 5, 2026
And all of that is before mentioning the “sell the team” chants that flood the right-field upper deck at Angel Stadium at each home game as ex-Angel Shohei Ohtani thrives with the Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 27, 2026
But fear best thrives in the present tense.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Kane, not known for his dribbling - and by his own admission "not the fastest", has thrived on his own terms.
From BBC β Sep. 4, 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
“The organization has clearly thrived under her caring leadership,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 6, 2026
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
It disturbed him that the plants thrived and filled the fenced patch with bloom like a funeral parlor, but would not set fruit.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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 the moisture rose above 1%, as it may during the Martian spring when the icecap melts or evaporates, the bacteria throve.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a small log chapel by the side of the Indian graveyard, this new mission of the older faith throve apace.
From Stories of the Badger State by Reuben Gold Thwaites
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
But the cloth trade, by which Chippinge had once thriven, had been revived, and the town was not quite fallen.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
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
In these lists he gives a surprising number of English weeds which had thriven and rejoiced in their new home.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
Taganrok has thriven rapidly, as Peter the Great foresaw it would do, and has become one of the most commercial towns of Southern Russia.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
Founded in the 19th century by Jewish brothers Loeb and Moses Simson in Suhl, Thuringia, it grew into a thriving industrial firm that made firearms but also bicycles and luxury automobiles.
From Barron's β Sep. 4, 2026
Moving on to a thriving Mediterranean-style garden, he noted it was important to stay optimistic: “Some plants will die, but others will thrive.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 31, 2026
We’ve also been told we can have it all: carefully developed careers, balanced retirement accounts, a thriving social life in which plans actually make it out of the group chat—and, oh, by the way, fertility.
From Slate β Aug. 29, 2026
Right now, the former Trump Taj Mahal, which fell into bankruptcy and disrepair under its namesake, is now thriving in Atlantic City as the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
From Salon β Aug. 28, 2026
“For that, you need White Harbor. The city cannot compare to Oldtown or King’s Landing, but it is still a thriving port. Lord Manderly is the richest of my lord father’s bannermen.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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