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[Thai Economics Library | Archives (for history)]
November 01, 2006

Flourish

flourish (verb) -
a. successful, developing quickly and strongly
b. grows well and is healthy because conditions are good


Example sentences:

* After the political problems ended, business flourished and everyone's income went up.

* Singapore has been a flourishing port city for almost two hundred years.

* The club has continued to flourish even though membership dropped off last year.

* If the conditions are right in the fish pond, the fish will flourish.

* We must enact laws that allow businesses of all sizes to flourish.

* December often disappoints investors but then rises in a year-end flourish just before the end of the year.

* Nationalist sentiment will flourish if the economy doesn't improve soon.

* The company has a reputation for allowing talent to flourish.

* Ancient Thai traditions continue to flourish in the countryside.

* They hoped that buffalo herds would once again flourish and roam free across the land.

* "It is a tautology that intellectuals need despotism to flourish."

* "Paradoxically, Japan did allow an 'ancient merchant capitalism' to flourish despite its own despotic tendencies and habits."

* In a land of true Buddhism people will flourish; In a family wherein the sutras are recited daily calamity will disappear.


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