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as in to flourish
to reach a desired level of accomplishment
began to prosper after years of crushing setbacks
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Recent Examples of prosper
Fleury prospered early in the season when Winnipeg’s coaching staff kept him far away from elite offensive players.
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Murat Ates, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
This change reflects an essential rethink of how companies operate and how employees prosper.
—Corey Digi, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
The construction of the Roosevelt Damn and the Eastern and Consolidated Canals in the early 1900s, two key water projects in Arizona, helped Gilbert prosper as a farming community.
—Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2024
Yunus knows that improving livelihoods is the only sure way to buy the necessary time to rebuild state institutions, so autocracy can never return—a new Bangladesh that prospers long after those murals have sun-bleached and blistered.
—Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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Murat Ates, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
This change reflects an essential rethink of how companies operate and how employees prosper.
—Corey Digi, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
The construction of the Roosevelt Damn and the Eastern and Consolidated Canals in the early 1900s, two key water projects in Arizona, helped Gilbert prosper as a farming community.
—Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2024
Yunus knows that improving livelihoods is the only sure way to buy the necessary time to rebuild state institutions, so autocracy can never return—a new Bangladesh that prospers long after those murals have sun-bleached and blistered.
—Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prosper
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The 26-year-old Spain international thrived with his freedom and enjoyed dropping deeper and getting closer to Pedri, Gavi and Frenkie de Jong as Barcelona overwhelmed the Betis midfield.—
Pol Ballús,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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This initiative, spearheaded by WTI in collaboration with the Kerala Forest and Fisheries Departments and supported by VST Industries Limited, has thrived thanks to the unwavering support of local communities.—
Melissa Cristina Marquez,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Critically, technical fluency in AI is not a requirement to meaningfully influence AI culture – a growth mindset and adaptability to change will create an environment for AI applications to flourish.—
London School of Economics,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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And Daboll has struggled to flourish as the New York Giants head coach.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Jan. 2025
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By the time the Los Angeles Fire Department had succeeded in putting out the blaze, more than six thousand acres had been scorched and nearly five hundred houses had been destroyed, including ones belonging to Zsa Zsa Gabor and Aldous Huxley.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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Our schools must be refocused to prepare our children to succeed in work, life, and keeping our country strong.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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With every call, by the time the police arrive, the offending behavior has settled down — not that any of it could possibly justify what ultimately happened, when Lorincz introduced a firearm into the equation.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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The next day, a first baseman’s glove arrived in the mail.—
Will Sammon,
The Athletic,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Prosper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosper. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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