flourishing
growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
Origin of flourishing
1Other words from flourishing
- flour·ish·ing·ly, adverb
- un·flour·ish·ing, adjective
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How to use flourishing in a sentence
The problem here is that goals such as connecting people, increasing human flourishing, or promoting freedom, equality, and democracy are not goals that are computationally tractable.
Why Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure | Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein | September 10, 2021 | TimeFollowing this surge in popularity, many brands — especially of the luxury variety — have begun to embrace resale, often as a protective mechanism to prevent the flourishing of counterfeit goods.
Fashion resale brands have lasting power beyond 2020 pandemic-induced boom | jim cooper | September 7, 2021 | DigidayThe relatively calm history of our solar system has favored the flourishing of life here on Earth.
A Quarter of Sun-Like Stars Eat Their Own Planets, According to New Research | Lorenzo Spina | September 2, 2021 | Singularity HubHowever, we didn’t know how common these chaotic systems are relative to quieter systems like ours, whose orderly architecture has favored the flourishing of life on Earth.
A Quarter of Sun-Like Stars Eat Their Own Planets, According to New Research | Lorenzo Spina | September 2, 2021 | Singularity HubSo you might think it’s a matter of justice that we owe it to future generations to bequeath them both an existence in the first place and the conditions for their flourishing.
Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.
Strangio is at his best when exposing what appears to be a flourishing civil society in Cambodia.
The Barzani government, on the other hand, has had flourishing ties with Turkey.
PKK Kurdish Terrorists Are Fighting IS Terrorists With U.S. Help | Thomas Seibert | August 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut there was certainly a flourishing of it right after World War II.
So yes, couture is alive and flourishing, thanks to wealth located far from its spiritual home of Paris.
What’s Haute, What’s Not: The Meaning of Modern Couture | Liza Foreman | July 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHence it can be seen what hope there is of establishing a flourishing christian church by such evangelists.
It was at one time a favoured and flourishing agricultural colony, but from various causes sank into neglect.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickHavana, however had long been flourishing before the seat of Government had been transferred to it from Santiago.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Until a few years ago the quarter known as the, Parian was the flourishing centre of the half-caste traders.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanI have seen in a single night the most flourishing orange-tree stripped of every leaf by this mischievous creature.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria Graham
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