- past tense form of rise.
rose
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Bardella rose to prominence by presenting himself as the voice of France’s working class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Under the legislation, many healthcare workers’ minimum wages in July rose from $24 an hour to $25 an hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Then his annual pay rose steadily to reach $411,209, or about 30% of the group’s total revenue, in 2023.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
For every 10-year increase between estimated brain age and actual age, the likelihood of developing dementia rose by nearly 40%.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
A sour smell of privy smoke rose off his hair, and probably mine.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Lee kept some plants that have been growing in the yard for decades, like the jasmine climbing around the front of the house as well as the white roses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
One hundred roses and a cake will be placed at the site, a symbol of Hollywood's golden age and a popular tourist hotspot.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
During Trump's tour on Friday, he paused to admire "the most beautiful roses anyone has ever seen" and trees, which Xi said were 200 to 400 years old.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
While touring the garden at Zhongnanhai, where China’s top officials live and work, Trump admired the roses and said they were the most beautiful he had ever seen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
La Llorona remained kneeling, clutching the roses to her chest.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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Picotee’s face was rosed over with the brilliance of some excitement.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas
He softly went nearer to her, and observed that a warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks, and felt that her hanging hand was no longer cold.
From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas
And does a cheek, like any sea-shell rosed, Or clear as widowed sky, seem most divine?
From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George
Succourful daughters of men are the rosed and starred Revolving Twelves in their fluent germinal rings, Despite the burden to chasten, abase, depose.
From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George
With slow foot The low rosed moon, the face of Music mute, Begins among her silent bars to climb.
From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George
I found a thicket and slept; slept it must have been for many hours, for when I again awakened the dawn was rosing the east.
From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham
Roses in a royal throng, Surging, rosing from the east!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George