What is "thrives"

Usage examples of "thrives".

Department of Defense, like similar ministries in every nation, thrives on enemies, real or imagined.

Thus rumour thrives in the capital, and will not go down into Lincolnshire.

Any bacterium that thrives in a lab is by definition exceptional, and yet these were, almost exclusively, the organisms studied by microbiologists.

Nature thrives on diversity and heterogeneity, and cloning moves in the opposite direction.