: characterized by success or prosperity
a thriving business
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our new landscaping business is thriving
the once thriving downtown has fallen into steep decline since the new mall was built
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Donaldsonville was located in the center of the state’s thriving sugar industry, which was rife with planters growing wealthy on the labor of the enslaved.
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Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The plan was to turn it into a thriving space and science center, but those plans were soon derailed.
—New Atlas, 3 Apr. 2026
But in the isolation of the seafloor, deep-sea corals have largely escaped the worst of these changes so far, offering researchers a chance to see what a thriving coral community really looks like.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
The once thriving dyestuff industry in Germany found itself in increasingly dire straits as the war progressed.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
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Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The plan was to turn it into a thriving space and science center, but those plans were soon derailed.
—New Atlas, 3 Apr. 2026
But in the isolation of the seafloor, deep-sea corals have largely escaped the worst of these changes so far, offering researchers a chance to see what a thriving coral community really looks like.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
The once thriving dyestuff industry in Germany found itself in increasingly dire straits as the war progressed.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for thriving
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“Thriving.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thriving. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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