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  • past tense form of rise.
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rose

[rohz] / roʊz /
NOUN
red-pink
Synonyms


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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

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

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




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