Some people in the business world, in fact, had an exceptionally good year, often thriving on the troubles of others.
Phytoplankton blooms are ephemeral events of exceptionally high primary productivity thriving seasonally in the sunlit layer of the oceans, while driving mass transfer of gases and elements between the water layer, the atmosphere and oceans-floor and composing the basis of marine food-webs.
The case for houseflies - or other insects like crickets, beetles, bees, wasps, caterpillars, grasshoppers, termites and ants - becoming a major industrial food source is being taken seriously by governments, says the report, because they grow exceptionally fast and thrive on the waste of many industrial processes.
All in a year when Wall Street is thriving and state tax revenue is exceptionally high.
The typical town springs up around a natural resource a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town.
The Vecchio Samperi, based on a 20-year-old solera ($50 a bottle), is nutty, heavy and a treat for palates that thrive on exceptionally austere wines.
Indeed, voters are exceptionally attentive to economic performance, a phenomenon political scientist Andrew Roberts called "hyperaccountability". And just now, the Czech Republic is thriving economically.
Jazz is an exceptionally hard world to exist and thrive in.
The broadcasts have thrived, in part, because they are exceptionally well produced.
But their teachers have the subjective impression that those with the maturity and discipline to thrive academically as teenagers tend to do exceptionally well.
