- past tense form of rise.
rose
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Saturday’s trade data showed that exports of petroleum products rose 34% from a year earlier in July on higher oil prices, while shipments of vehicles and steel goods increased 7.0% and 4.4%, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Microsoft shares rose another 3% on Friday, continuing their climb after the company reported earnings earlier in the week.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Under the legislation, many healthcare workers’ minimum wages in July rose from $24 an hour to $25 an hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Then his annual pay rose steadily to reach $411,209, or about 30% of the group’s total revenue, in 2023.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Watchers rose in a cloud and vanished.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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He is known as 'The Florist' because he helps young players to blossom, and everything has come up roses for him again.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 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
There’s a beautiful rose garden there, and I think the roses should be in bloom during World Cup season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
One hundred roses and a cake will be placed at the site, a symbol of Hollywood's golden age and a popular tourist hotspot.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
His face slowly turned the color of one of the Greenbrier’s French roses.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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"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 Rives, Amélie
With slow foot The low rosed moon, the face of Music mute, Begins among her silent bars to climb.
From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George
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 Shakespeare, William
Picotee’s face was rosed over with the brilliance of some excitement.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas
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 Hardy, Thomas
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 Merritt, Abraham
Roses in a royal throng, Surging, rosing from the east!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George