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rose

[rohz] / roʊz /
NOUN
red-pink
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It all came after Wales, whose captain Bethan Dainton was the tournament's top tackler by a distance in the first two rounds with 77, rose to the occasion with a strong start.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Auto exports rose 18% in October from a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Sea levels also rose and fell, periodically reducing the stretches of water that separated different regions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

Over 10 years, the estimated risk rose to 78%, although the longer-term findings were based on substantially less data.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

As expected, Hord’s hide-arm rose to block it.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

The situation escalates as the mariachi music begins playing and the couple approach a display of white roses and candles laid out on the grass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

A bunch of roses was also left nearby, in tribute to the little girl.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Playing divorced designer Elizabeth James, Richardson has an on-screen boudoir that is a sanctuary for the working creative mother: charcoal sketches; wire-framed reading glasses; ’90s white cordless landline; creamy thank-you roses on the nightstand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

“If the roses have gone so wild, why is the grass so trimmed?”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

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

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 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

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


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