flourish
verb (used without object)
to be in a vigorous state; thrive.
will flourish
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future tenseof flourish.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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In this void of mistrust, all kinds of noxious ideas will flourish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
About 500,000 salmon swam downriver, and tribal leaders said they expect these fish will flourish when they migrate back upstream in a few years to spawn in a free-flowing river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
She hopes that her ice cream shop will flourish so she can fulfil her dream of opening a café and maybe even a business for her mother.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2023
“We will flourish until our raison d’etre for being people’s lawyers ceases.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
In a patient who gets only one antibiotic or inadequate doses of several, or who doesn’t take his medicine as instructed, the drug-susceptible bacilli may die off but the drug-resistant mutants will flourish.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
