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rose

[rohz] / roʊz /
NOUN
red-pink
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The shortage in rental housing means that costs rose by 8.5% in 2025, according to real estate firm Idealista, with Madrid alone seeing an increase of 9.7% in rents.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The music rose and fell, rose and fell as the players became one, followed by an orchestrated hush that served as a silent accent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The RealReal’s sales rose 17% in the second quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

In the third quarter, GM sales fell 5.5 percent to 670,974 units, while Toyota sales rose 0.6 percent to 633,223 units.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Through the trees, something big and domed rose into sight.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

No longer just the realm of circus performers with red roses and horror figures like Pennywise, it’s become an antidote for actors and others tired of rejection and the pressure to get everything right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

Sylvia Phillips was discovered wrapped in a leopard print silk blanket, with yellow and pink roses placed on her body, as well as a birthday card signed from him and the family dog Tina.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Fresh and elegant, with serious tannins, aromas of violets and roses and flavors including pomegranate and big, ripe red berries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

I took the vase from her and speculated on the luminous white roses.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

It is a beautiful little type, "rosed from top to toe in flush of youth."

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles

She sank; she snatched at colours; they were peel Of fruit past savour, in derision rosed.

From Poems — Volume 3 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

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

Picotee’s face was rosed over with the brilliance of some excitement. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy

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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