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How to pronounce palmy in English?

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Synonyms booming, flourishing, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving


a palmy time for stockbrokers.

Examples of palmy

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In those palmy days, the Green Berets were the darlings of the New Frontier.
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After a palmy decade, Walt's successors are finding it's a jungle out there.
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In the palmy days of the 1920s, the economy seemed to be a machine that ran automatically.
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Meanwhile, fans of the palmy program will not run out of music.
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Not since the palmy days of late-Victorian publishing has so much care and attention been lavished on the hardback.
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An outpost important to Rome at the peak of its imperial power, the palmy city was swallowed up by lava and ash in AD 79.
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A water project had dried it to the bed, but the next day I swam in Umm al-Maa, a block of opaque green water nestled in a palmy basin.
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Emerging from the water in a bikini, she commandeers a small boat, outraces her pursuers and escapes to safety on a palmy island.
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Back in the palmy days of Hollywood, movies were almost always made in one shape, a box that was 1.33 times as wide as it was high.
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  • Booming: very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"
  • Palmy, (Eve Parnchareun), born 7 August 1981 in Bangkok, Thailand, is a Thai pop singer. She has recorded several albums and concert DVDs on the GMM Grammy label beginning with her self-titled solo debut, Palmy, in 2001. ...
  • Of, related to, or covered with palm trees; Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving