flourished

verb

past tense of flourish
1
as in thrived
to grow vigorously that plant flourishes in cool, wet weather

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2
as in succeeded
to reach a desired level of accomplishment the arts program flourished once it received adequate funding

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Recent Examples of flourished The demand has grown so high that an underground gray market has flourished in delivering those cult-classic burgers to hungry customers. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026 In this respect this limited expansion differed fundamentally from the chain stores that flourished from the 1990s. — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026 The absence of a living monarch on our money, or on our travel documents, was not an accident haphazardly arrived at but a declaration of equality meant to be flourished and displayed. — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026 China has stepped up cooperation with Southeast Asian nations to crack down on a vast industry that has flourished in the region in recent years to fleece people out of billions of dollars. — CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 Left to her own devices, the former Danity Kane and Diddy - Dirty Money member has flourished creatively. — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026 In the Ming era, for instance, foreign beliefs such as Manichaeism, a Persian faith that had flourished under Mongol rule, were suppressed. — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026 Flights from Dubai to Tel Aviv have flourished in the five years since the United Arab Emirates and Israel normalized relations in 2020, analysts say. — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026 The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi, flourished for centuries, building elaborate fortresses, cities and other settlements. — R. Scott Rappold, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flourished
  1. thrived
  2. succeeded
  3. prospered
  4. arrived
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  • Our species was born in the cold Pleistocene, thrived in the comfortable Holocene, and may have plunged Earth into this new epoch, defined by our own dominance.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Shooters have thrived in Campbell’s spacing due to how much attention point guards and bigs generate off the pick-and-roll.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of thrived
Verb
  • He was reelected four years later and was succeeded by one of his cabinet ministers, Dilma Rousseff, in 2010.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • He was reelected four years later and was succeeded by one of his Cabinet ministers, Dilma Rousseff, in 2010.
    — Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of succeeded
Verb
  • Mystic, when his great, great, great- grandfather prospered in the shipping industry.
    — Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The original finders prospered, with George, Jim, and Charlie making about $1 million in gold, while word of their discovery spread.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of prospered
Verb
  • Over 7 million people were eligible to vote, and tens of thousands reportedly arrived from overseas.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Police 22-year-old Hampton fled the scene before officers arrived, but was located, arrested and charged with murder later that day.
    — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of arrived

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