flourishing businesses.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

flourishing crops.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a flourishing little business.    From Dictionary.com. 

Greek mainland, the concentration of our population, once dispersed in flourishing centres the world over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giorgos Seferis - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Provincetown was apparently what is called a flourishing town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cape Cod] Reference

Be this as it may, we find a family of that name flourishing some centuries later in that county.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference

Before two years were over, he was what people call a flourishing man, and laying by a little money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Marston] Reference

While I'm glad and all that they are so called flourishing in the recession, they are getting 194 million in revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slashdot] Reference

That's Aristotle meant more than two thousand years ago when he called happiness a state of "flourishing" or "excellence".    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Schoch: Why the Happiness Scientists Have Got it All Wrong] Reference

The trouble with "flourishing" is that animals and even plants can flourish but eudaimonia is possibly only for rational beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virtue Ethics] Reference

You earlier said that it is legal, and then you say that it is in decline, except where it is "flourishing" in the Arabian Peninsula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wednesday, May 31, 2006] Reference

I'm not so sure that a conversation is "flourishing," considering that most of the posts seem to be hand-wringing about "personal attacks.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: Political Cyber-Discourse at UNC Law School] Reference

Britain and China were "flourishing", Xinhua reported.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

News of the World, he was presiding over what can only be described as a flourishing criminal concern ".    From Wordnik.com.  [openDemocracy] Reference

If our Trade in twenty years, 'flourishing' as never Trade flourished, could double itself; yet then also, by the old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present] Reference

It is described as "flourishing" (Ps. 92: 12), tall (Cant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Signs of the flourishing drug trade are everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into The Breach] Reference

Whatever the controversy, Augustine & Company is flourishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Norman Conquest] Reference

Of Argentina's 26 provinces, it's one of the few that is flourishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Province That Works] Reference

The virus was flourishing in the patients before they started treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Aids Optimism] Reference

Austin, Texas, is not the first place you'd expect to find a flourishing creative enclave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's New Culture Meccas] Reference

    Woman: Wind and solar are flourishing here in Ohio, why are you supporting clean coal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [FactChecking Biden-Palin Debate] Reference

Serial entrepreneur Niklas Zennstrom might serve as a model for Sweden's flourishing IT industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [ESTONIA: HACK HEAVEN] Reference

Celine's eight U.S. boutiques are flourishing (next story), and plans are underway to open several more.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Can't Touch This] Reference

But the illegal trade in foreign cigarettes is flourishing in China -- and it is moving in both directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hard Habit To Break] Reference

It is failing to find new listeners while its core audience is aging and shrinking (only opera's flourishing).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cross Over, Beethoven] Reference

In general, fine jewelry is flourishing even at a time when other segments of the luxury market have stagnated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring Forecast: Baubles That Pop] Reference

Today, Vietnamese farmers rather than soldiers use the waters to grow shrimp, and their business is flourishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE LAST ASIAN TIGER] Reference

The only thing truly flourishing today is the military itself, which now eats up 40 percent of the national budget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judicial Terror] Reference

The AFL-CIO's most flourishing union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, might act alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gephardt, On Schedule] Reference

But when his researchers explored the villages and slums, they found that not only did they exist, they were flourishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doing It Themselves] Reference

A century on, Oscar Wilde's legacy is flourishing, and he is once more the toast of London, as history is rewritten again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Importance Of Being Wilde] Reference

Most successful is the Guggenheim, which operates flourishing satellites in Venice, Berlin and, most recently, Bilbao, Spain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Branching Out In Nagoya] Reference

I don't understand how Albanians can live in such abject poverty and degradation in the same country where Slavs are flourishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

While unstinting in its ambition and flourishing in its characters, "Sacred Games" is not trying to emulate the great Victorian epics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bollywood Dreams] Reference

A few decades ago, tennis was the cutting edge of women's sports, flourishing with Billie Jean King, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martina Redux] Reference

A flourishing democracy like India has often responded to such movements by imposing martial law and suspending political and civil rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don’t Feed China’s Nationalism] Reference