- past tense form of rise.
rose
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The well-known food brand rose to prominence in the 1960s when Bernard Matthews entered the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest turkey farmer in Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Leading Economic Index, or LEI, published by research group The Conference Board, rose by 0.2% to 99.5, following an upwardly revised 0.1% decrease in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing index for August rose to 47.4 from 41.4 in July, beating economists expectations for just 24.1 Leading economic indicators are due at 10 a.m.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Our analysis shows that the cost of raw materials like timber, steel, plasterboard, concrete and insulation rose in line with general inflation from the 1990s until the Covid-19 pandemic, when they became harder to source.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The climbing rose that my mother protected every winter had died.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Patterson's 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 ● Aug. 20, 2026
Tan, toned, twinkle in his eye, he looks like he should be handing out roses on “The Bachelor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The show began with a pre-recorded video of Mars praying in a church for a good performance, before he emerged beneath visuals of a stained-glass window in a red suit bejewelled with roses.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
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
The woman’s hair explodes into an afro that is decorated with strawberry-red roses and blueberry-colored butterflies.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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 George Meredith
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
And does a cheek, like any sea-shell rosed, Or clear as widowed sky, seem most divine?
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
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
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