Flourish in a sentence as a noun

Somehow culture was able to flourish without ads for thousands of years.

I suspect that for a place to flourish like Silicon Valley, it needs a law that protects self bootstrapping startups.

That's not the kind of environment where "reasoned and rational discussion" are really going to flourish.

And the one genuinely messed-up thing he's done are his media laws, which make it hard for any large independent media companies to flourish.

However, Twitter grew because it offered this liberal, API-driven architecture that allowed tools to flourish and whatnot.

Those systems specifically flourish by protecting the weak from the powerful, the minority from the majority.

Flourish in a sentence as a verb

From 100k feet, Facebook's adoption of Thrift, and Thrift's tradition of supporting polyglot languages, means that a lot of "niche" languages can flourish within the larger production ecosystem.

I appreciate you asking for user response, and I wish you all the best in setting site defaults that build a civil, thoughtful informative community on HN that helps innovation flourish.

The last line sums up most of what I disliked about this piece: "where only big ideas flourish and school's out for everybody".Safer tries to suggest that Thiel is advocating against college for everybody, or any field.

This secrecy erodes bargaining power and has allowed a small industry of profit-taking middlemen to flourish: joint implant purchasing consultants, implant billing companies, joint brokers.

But just as decades of Windows being just unimaginably shitty didn't knock Microsoft off its PC perch, even as alternatives to the iPhone flourish, Apple keeps a strong lead because of natural inertial and platform lock-in forces.

Flourish definitions

noun

a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"

noun

an ornamental embellishment in writing

noun

a display of ornamental speech or language

noun

the act of waving

See also: brandish

noun

(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"

See also: fanfare tucket

verb

grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"

See also: boom thrive expand

verb

make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance; "The new student is thriving"

See also: thrive prosper

verb

move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"

See also: brandish wave