- past tense form of rise.
rose
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Consumer prices rose 3.4% in the same period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Gas prices outside the greater Belfast also rose on Thursday.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Hourly pay rose at a 3.0% pace in the 12 months ended in September, marking the smallest increase since 2019.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
The music rose and fell, rose and fell as the players became one, followed by an orchestrated hush that served as a silent accent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Smoke rose from chimneys, and windows were lit with candles.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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At the base of the charred pine are dozens of bouquets — roses, daisies and white lilies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The title track opens the set with a patiently strummed acoustic guitar and Beck’s voice leading with “Yesterday / Paper roses they forgot to bloom.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
Fresh and elegant, with serious tannins, aromas of violets and roses and flavors including pomegranate and big, ripe red berries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
I picked up the roses and dismounted my bike, letting it fall to the ground as I walked toward the water.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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She sank; she snatched at colours; they were peel Of fruit past savour, in derision rosed.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
Picotee’s face was rosed over with the brilliance of some excitement.
From The Hand of Ethelberta 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
And does a cheek, like any sea-shell rosed, Or clear as widowed sky, seem most divine?
From Poems — Volume 1 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
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
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