Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thrive.(verb)
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Use "thrives" in a sentence
"Palin thrives on whipping up resentment as a path to political power."
"The notion that the brain thrives on chaos, in a mathematical sense, comes as no shock to neuroscientist Walter J. Freeman of the University of California, Berkeley."
"Nonetheless, swings and roundabouts accounted for, FPTP in which tactical voting thrives, is still infinitely better than PR."