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arrive

[uh-rahyv] / əˈraɪv /




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At El Nopal, when the baskets arrive, nobody asks who is paying for this round.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

While the future imagined here made life easier, cleaner, more beautiful and more exciting, it did not arrive as advertised.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

He hopes his mother will arrive in time to say goodbye.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The category describes children who arrive in the United States without an adult, or whose parents were detained by immigration agents and are in shelters or government custody.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

When we arrive at the library, Boo is so excited about the rain boots and the rain hat and the raincoat, she barely even manages “nutty up, nutty down.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

While Kelvin waves are common -- there are five or six during every El Nino -- this one arrives at a delicate time, said Amaya, with sea temperatures already elevated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

As Fennell reminds us at the end of the film, justice — if it ever comes — often arrives too late, and at the expense of too many lives.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

For many of those the BBC spoke to in Redditch, the concern was not just about a £5-a-month increase, but what it means when colder weather arrives and household budgets are already stretched.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

When she arrives at their imposing Vermont mansion to go through Verity’s notes, Lowen discovers that Verity’s a vegetable: completely physically and mentally indisposed after a car accident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The next course arrives and Celia returns to listening and observing, in between trying to figure out if the meat disguised in feather-light pastry and delicate wine sauce is actually lamb or something more exotic.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

While Ruttenberg arrived without enlistment plans, for others, it was the reason they came.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The thing that once arrived as part of the welcome now joins the same mental ledger as everything else: Drinks?

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Hospital staff informed law enforcement, and when police arrived at their home they discovered three different rooms called "learning centres" under the supervision of multiple nannies, which Hochman described as a "house of horrors".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

They arrived in the UK between 2016 and 2022.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Father always arrived a couple of hours before the time signal in order to visit the wholesalers who supplied him with watches and parts.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The Kelvin wave arriving now is either the second or third one of this El Niño, depending on how you analyze the data, Amaya said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“It is arriving now,” UC Agriculture and Natural Resources climate scientist Daniel Swain said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

But he acknowledged a potential "gap in support" for parents between seeing health visitors with their toddler, and the child later arriving at school.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Pollock—born in Wyoming, with an itinerant childhood before arriving in Los Angeles as a teenager—had been exposed to American indigenous art, Mexican muralism, Surrealism and the regionalism of Thomas Hart Benton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

While she was certain the Tome of Ushers said nothing about a heavily decorated pigeon arriving in Deadwood, the bird seemed to know something Gingersnipes did not.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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