How to Use flourishing in a Sentence
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The emerging sun and flourishing flowers mean that spring is in full bloom at the beginning of May.
—Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
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Without a flourishing and clean environment, there will be no animals to hunt or fish to catch.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2024
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Rather than stopping drinking, the ban over time has led to a flourishing and dangerous bootleg market.
—Leily Nikounazar, New York Times, 14 July 2023
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This shifts your experience of life from mere survival to truly flourishing.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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One of the most revealing insights from recent studies is how flourishing plays out differently across the globe.
—Robert B. Tucker, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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These policies are not made by wise philosopher-kings seeking to create a flourishing and virtuous economy.
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 13 Mar. 2022
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The brand is approaching its first birthday and seems to be growing and flourishing, selling not just clothing but shoes and other golf accessories.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
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The whole thing operated like a big wonderful flourishing organic body.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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But hydrothermal vents are like the Santa Barbaras of the abyss, peaceful respites where life can be abundant and flourishing.
—Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
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Cultivating a flourishing, diverse gut microbiome seems to translate to a range of health benefits.
—Jamie Ducharme, Health, 24 June 2025
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MassBio was founded in 1985 and represents one of the most flourishing biopharma hubs in the world.
—Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
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The inability to afford homes, the time and cost of commuting, and the shortage of school and elderly care places have put flourishing cities out of reach for many working people.
—Ian Goldin, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
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Its roots stretch all the way back to the ancient Greeks, who emphasized the role of human rationality in figuring out how to lead a good and flourishing life.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 20 Oct. 2024
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The Taylor Swift industrial complex is alive and flourishing.
—Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 26 Jan. 2024
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And, like Smart’s mural, the people running businesses that are stable and flourishing offer a net of support to the newer arrivals.
—Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
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Right now nature in Dallas is budding, blooming and flourishing, so buyers can see exactly what homes have to offer during the city’s green season.
—Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
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Being socially connected and having flourishing friendships can deeply enhance the quality of your life.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
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And there is a huge and flourishing genre of partly textual gaming on mobile which is very much about storytelling, using a sort of patchwork of words, animations and video clips.
—Anna Washenko, Ars Technica, 20 June 2024
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Some of this difficulty is thanks to online booking as well as a flourishing alternative market for reservations secured through bots and fake phone numbers.
—Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024
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Research in Palau has already identified other populations of coral that are heat-resistant and flourishing.
—Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
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Still, none of these speculations about their respective temperaments explains why the boys, seemingly deeply loved and flourishing, decided to opt out so early on.
—Daphne Merkin, New York Times, 18 May 2025
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Through underwater sequences featuring coral reefs, kelp forests, and the vast ocean life, Attenborough shares why a healthy ocean keeps the entire planet stable and flourishing.
—Devonne Goode, Parents, 5 June 2025
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After all, nature has been perfecting the art of adaptation for billions of years—there's no better guide for transforming businesses into flourishing ecosystems.
—Jennifer Kamara, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Waterhouse spoke candidly to The Times about their flourishing but private relationship.
—Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 21 Feb. 2023
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When other Black families started buying lots around the Bruce’s beach, the flourishing resort area was met with hostility from white residents.
—Mariette Williams, Essence, 21 May 2025
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Altadena, for instance, home to some of the West Coast’s most historic and flourishing Black middle-class neighborhoods, was decimated by the area wildfires.
—Jerel Ezell, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
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In writing its founding narrative, Crymes speaks to the value of both working within the fraught systems of today and sensing beyond them to more flourishing possibilities for the future.
—Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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This holistic approach addresses what's failing in current, disjointed systems and fosters more flourishing futures, including for leaders themselves.
—Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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Throughout history, those societies that invested in higher education were always the most flourishing and advanced societies.
—Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
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Relationships, purpose, and spiritual depth routinely outperform wealth as predictors of a flourishing life.
—Robert B. Tucker, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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