Example Sentences

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Bello said her goal is to turn a “victim to survivor, survivor to thriver, and thriver to champion.”

From Fox News • May 18, 2019

Gibb said Alf evolved from victim to survivor to thriver.

From Washington Post

The animal should be slaughtered immediately, if at all in condition, as it will not only lose condition every day till the hoof comes off, but be a bad thriver ever after.

From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by M'Combie, William