- past tense form of rise.
rose
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Net sales rose 1% to $1.6 billion, its own expectation of a decline of 1%, and analyst forecasts of a modest decline to $1.57 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Shares of ExxonMobil rose 2.0 percent in pre-market trading, while Chevron climbed 1.7 percent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Air transportation rose for a fourth consecutive month, coinciding with new seasonal routes to destinations outside the U.S. over the summer by Canadian airlines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Norwegian Cruise Line’s third-quarter profit rose and the company raised its full-year outlook as it implemented the next phase of its turnaround effort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
I rose from the desk, hastily smoothing my dress.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Her 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 ● Oct. 28, 2026
One day, at a job selling novelty wood roses to supermarkets and convenience stores, his boss walked in and threw a sticky octopus on the wall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
At the base of the charred pine are dozens of bouquets — roses, daisies and white lilies.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
Velia folded her shirt over the ten roses I’d already given her.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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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 Amélie Rives
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
Picotee’s face was rosed over with the brilliance of some excitement.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
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
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
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