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Plowed and fenced and ran domestic livestock over what had been flourishing camas meadows, medicinal herbs and berries, carefully managed by Native people for harvest.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2022

And the animals and microbes there had been flourishing for billions of years, perhaps longer than life in the terrestrial world.

From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2018

The Lyme disease bacterium had been flourishing for months and had entered my brain and central nervous system.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2015

Despite missing its starting back court because of injury, Maryland had been flourishing most of the season without a true point guard, but the Blue Devils exposed that deficiency for the second straight game.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2013

Mona thought that if the law had its course with her she would need but very little of the ill-gotten wealth upon which she had been flourishing so extravagantly of late.

From True Love's Reward by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.