- past tense form of rise.
rose
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However, once adjusted for inflation - currently at 2.8% for the island, external - Statistics Jersey said earnings rose by 1.2%, representing a real-terms pay cut.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The revised GDP data showed that exports rose two percent in the second quarter from the first, while imports were also up substantially.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The company’s overall revenue grew 21% to 41.9 billion Danish kroner, while net profit rose 32% to 8.6 billion kroner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
German growth rose faster than previously estimated in the second quarter thanks to strong exports, official data showed Tuesday, as Europe's biggest economy defied the turmoil unleashed by the Iran war.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
As expected, Hord’s hide-arm rose to block it.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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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
In the front gardens, yellow and red roses bloom to match the houses’ exteriors; in the back, a sunny 4-foot cocktail pool with a natural limestone border awaits guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
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
Its bright orange shade looked almost neon against the phantasmagoric roses bursting from the carpeting and wallpaper—every inch of this underworld custom-calibrated for a blindingly colorful ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Papa always used pruned lengths of the roses that climbed the little house, weaving them into a very loose topping, but those roses had burned when the old house had last year.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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
It is a beautiful little type, "rosed from top to toe in flush of youth."
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
"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
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
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
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