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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prosper .
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Examples
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The wealthiest in Moldova have often prospered from the “shadow economies” that profit from human, drug, and arms trafficking and foreign remittances.
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The wealthiest in Moldova have often prospered from the “shadow economies” that profit from human, drug, and arms trafficking and foreign remittances.
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My school was named and still is after a white, male heterosexual who prospered from the defense industry.
Sound Politics: "Ample provision" is a function of both funding and expenses 2007
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About the only people who prospered from the scare were the stockholders of the New York Telephone Company.
Here Come the Martians! « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2007
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Rose is not the only person to have prospered from the crisis.
One's heart bleeds for the Grauniad Helen 2006
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He told the BBC's Radio 5Live that he himself had "prospered" from shadow cabinet elections before Labour came to power in 1997.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Those are the ones that "prospered" not the country.
unknown title 2009
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And there are few who doubt China's gains came at the expense of the US worker … and lately, the US economy itself … while only a few have 'prospered'.
Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas 2008
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Other Americans have also prospered on the Open Doctor's remodeled courses.
Hoping for Open Doctor's Cure Ed Brockner 2011
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In the last campaign, O had offered voters quite a grandiose vision: an era of peace and goodwill among nations and individuals, when reason ruled, rich and poor prospered alike, technology saved man from the defects of his nature, the oceans receded, and fatal diseases were cured.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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