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thriving

American  
[thrahy-ving] / ˈθraɪ vɪŋ /

adjective

  1. prospering or doing well; highly successful.

    The Arts Commission plans to expand its thriving ArtSmart program into all 21 of the city’s elementary schools.

  2. growing or developing vigorously; flourishing.

    When I worked on her farm ten years ago there was still a thriving goat herd, but she’s been unable to keep it up on her own.


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Etymology

Origin of thriving

thriv(e) ( def. ) + -ing 2 ( def. )

Explanation

Something that's thriving is doing very well. You have a thriving cupcake business if you can hardly bake enough to keep up with your customers' orders. Use the adjective thriving to describe something that's healthy — like your new puppy — or profitable and busy — like your dad's car dealership. A thriving Mexican food truck always has a long line in front of it, and a thriving publisher puts out many popular books. Thriving comes from the verb thrive, and its Old Norse root word, þrifask, which means both "thrive" and "grasp to oneself," from þrifa, "to clutch or grasp."

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"In 1994 the soccer market was very nascent in the US, and today we have thriving professional leagues, and some of the world's great stadiums," US Soccer chief executive JT Batson told BBC Sport.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

What’s Next: Kalshi and Polymarket are thriving in states like Texas and California, where traditional sports betting remains illegal, and prediction markets will be the only legal game in town for local bettors.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Even if they don’t end up building thriving businesses of their own, they own valuable spectrum—the right to transmit data and voice calls over certain frequencies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Onstage, the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service was thriving as his two bands toured together to mark the 20th anniversaries of Death Cab’s “Transatlanticism” and the Postal Service’s “Give Up.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

With all the warm weather, the plants should have been thriving.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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