Definition of "flourished" []

• Simple past and past participle of flourish. (verb)

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• "There is also the problem why, if no such person existed, anyone should have invented him, and why so many people should have believed the story to the extent that a religion in his name flourished so quickly."
• "Adam Levy remembers that, as the label flourished, his father bemoaned the Robinsons’ “uncontrollable” spending."
• "(By contrast, the U.S. economy flourished from the mid-1980s until 2008 in part because investors and businesses were confident that the Fed would keep the nation on a steady growth path.)"