- past tense form of rise.
rose
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The two were often spotted at events together, but as Perry’s star rose and Perez’s blogging tactics were called out as toxic amid a shift away from tabloid culture, their friendship seemed to fizzle out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
It comes as the number of complaints made by households about water companies to the industry watchdog rose by a record 84% in a year, driven by customer concern and confusion over rising bills.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Oil prices rose to four-month highs with the shutdown of Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline and Houthi threats to shipping in the Red Sea keeping the market on edge about supply out of the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The yield on the policy-sensitive two-year note rose 0.028 percentage point to 4.661%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
A deluge of chaotic sound rose from its depths: roaring, barking, yowling, whimpering.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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
A bunch of roses was also left nearby, in tribute to the little girl.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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
“There are fields of Bayahíbe roses just beyond the Spector Lagoon,” Seven said.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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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
She sank; she snatched at colours; they were peel Of fruit past savour, in derision rosed.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
And does a cheek, like any sea-shell rosed, Or clear as widowed sky, seem most divine?
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
Picotee’s face was rosed over with the brilliance of some excitement.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
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
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