: characterized by success or prosperity
a thriving business
Examples of thriving in a Sentence
our new landscaping business is thriving
the once thriving downtown has fallen into steep decline since the new mall was built
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This includes tech startups like Queen One, which just signed a 10-year lease for its new headquarters in Williamsburg, joining a thriving innovation ecosystem in Brooklyn and contributing to New York City’s status as the applied AI capital of the world.
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Adolfo Carrión Jr, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
Once a thriving port city, Ephesus is thought to have been originally settled around 1200 BCE, towards the end of the Bronze age.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Our strength as a nation lies in our free and thriving capital markets.
—Carlos Cubelo, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
Today trendy Flagler Village is a thriving part of downtown, home to hundreds of newcomers who are flocking to the new restaurants, bars and shops that have opened in the past decade or so.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2025
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Adolfo Carrión Jr, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
Once a thriving port city, Ephesus is thought to have been originally settled around 1200 BCE, towards the end of the Bronze age.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Our strength as a nation lies in our free and thriving capital markets.
—Carlos Cubelo, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
Today trendy Flagler Village is a thriving part of downtown, home to hundreds of newcomers who are flocking to the new restaurants, bars and shops that have opened in the past decade or so.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for thriving
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“Thriving.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thriving. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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