rose
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Oil futures rose on renewed concerns about disruption of flows out of the Persian Gulf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
From 2016 to 2023, the annual traffic death toll rose nearly 29% overall, and pedestrian deaths jumped roughly 54%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Meanwhile, the approval of Carney's government rose four points in recent weeks, as has the prime minister's personal popularity, according to figures released on Monday by Canadian pollster Abacus Data, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Robinhood’s event contract revenue rose from $10 million to $156 million year-on-year in the second quarter, surpassing revenue from equities and cryptocurrencies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Ma rose, moved beside me, and began smoothing my hair.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The markers were engraved with butterflies, with pairs of butterfly-shaped flower arrangements next to the graves along with bouquets containing a mix of white and purple roses, daisies and carnations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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
Tan, toned, twinkle in his eye, he looks like he should be handing out roses on “The Bachelor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
We learned about the annual return of swallows, admired blooming roses and citrus trees and absorbed a simple story: Spanish conquistadors and Catholic priests tamed a wild land, and we should follow their example.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
Pearly palaces, pink roses, purple birds, and golden rice paddies glowed softly in the light of the kerosene lamps.
From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins
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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
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 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
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
And does a cheek, like any sea-shell rosed, Or clear as widowed sky, seem most divine?
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