Effective and Thriving

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Effective adjective - Producing or capable of producing a desired result.

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Thriving and effective are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thriving" instead an adjective "Effective".

Thriving adjective - Having attained a desired end or state of good fortune.

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Effective and thriving are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Effective" instead an adjective "Thriving".

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Flanderization: At the beginning of the series, Claude Erskine-Brown is a somewhat pompous but nevertheless effective barrister with a thriving civil practice.

Source: Series / Rumpole of the Bailey
In Spore, you can deterraform planets of an enemy empire to reduce the level of colony that planet can maintain (especially effective against enemy home-worlds, as it reduces them from thriving T-3s with extra settlements, to a basic T-2 with two settlements at best).

Source: Hostile Terraforming
Hostile Terraforming: You can deterraform planets of an enemy empire to reduce the level of colony that planet can maintain (especially effective against enemy home-worlds, as it reduces them from thriving T-3s with extra settlements, to a basic T-2 with two settlements at best).

Source: Video Game / Spore

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