- past tense form of rise.
rose
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Overall sales at the company rose by 15% for the year, to $479bn.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 213.67 points, or 0.41%, to 51983.98.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
As an artist, he rose to prominence as a teen in the early ’80s with the duo Cybotron, with Richard “3070” Davis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Revenue rose to $5.43 billion, up from $3.92 billion a year prior and ahead of analyst expectations for $4.6 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Mrs. Heemstra continued with her recipe for stretching the tea ration with rose leaves.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Her trial last year drew podcasters, film crews and true crime fans to a courthouse in the rural town of Morwell, a sedate hamlet in Victoria better known for its prize-winning roses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Officers were in the area over the weekend to provide reassurance to the community and a bunch of roses was left nearby in tribute to the girl.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Playing divorced designer Elizabeth James, Richardson has an on-screen boudoir that is a sanctuary for the working creative mother: charcoal sketches; wire-framed reading glasses; ’90s white cordless landline; creamy thank-you roses on the nightstand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The markers were engraved with butterflies, with pairs of butterfly-shaped flower arrangements next to the graves along with bouquets containing a mix of white and purple roses, daisies and carnations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“If the roses have gone so wild, why is the grass so trimmed?”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Alas, a crimson river of warm blood, Like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind, Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips, Coming and going with thy honey breath.
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
"I feel like Jupiter!" he called, rubbing his sides, and back, standing on one foot to dry the other, his glossy skin all rosed in patches from his vigorous rubbing.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
With slow foot The low rosed moon, the face of Music mute, Begins among her silent bars to climb.
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
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 Thomas Hardy
It is a beautiful little type, "rosed from top to toe in flush of youth."
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
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 Abraham Merritt
Roses in a royal throng, Surging, rosing from the east!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
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