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as in bloom
a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement
in the full blossom of her career as a writer
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Recent Examples of blossom
Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 17 July 2025
Sight: Adding an attractive visual effect to a sensory garden can be as simple as adding plants with contrasting colors, light, shadows, shapes, textures, foliage, blossoms, and habits, like creeping, climbing, trailing, bushy or upright.
—Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
Sophie Dodd, People.com, 30 July 2025
While that project has stalled, Gore is blossoming.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 27 July 2025
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Noun
Its delicious notes of vanilla, lavender, and orange blossom fuse together for a sophisticated scent that smells like luxury year-round.
—Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 17 July 2025
Sight: Adding an attractive visual effect to a sensory garden can be as simple as adding plants with contrasting colors, light, shadows, shapes, textures, foliage, blossoms, and habits, like creeping, climbing, trailing, bushy or upright.
—Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
Verb
Liam Neeson celebrates Natasha Richardson's 30th birthday The pair's budding romance blossomed while Neeson was filming Schindler's List in Poland following the play's run, a role which would earn him his first Oscar nomination.
—Sophie Dodd, People.com, 30 July 2025
While that project has stalled, Gore is blossoming.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 27 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blossom
Noun
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Nighttime temperatures below 55°F can limit a tomato plant’s bloom production.—
Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Aug. 2025
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Jellyfish blooms have become common from Maine to Florida in recent years.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Grevillea x gaudichaudii is a prostrate species, also with red flowers, whose foliage is reddish as well.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
16 Aug. 2025
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Interspersed among the plants are a couple of apricot trees, a very young Meyer lemon tree and, across the driveway, a cassia tree, still in bloom with yellow flowers.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Blossom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blossom. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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