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uprise

[uhp-rahyz, uhp-rahyz] / ʌpˈraɪz, ˈʌpˌraɪz /


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“Then another horrible incident occurs and the faculty uprise in such a quick manner, like a wildfire,” Tierney said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2018

It is a shameful aspect of the human kind that the nations who uprise against one dictator always choose another one in its place.

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2018

"Versace's team knows how to do the look," says Kal Ruttenstein, the fashion director at Bloomingdale's, pointing out that sales of Versace merchandise at his company's stores have been "all on the uprise."

From Time Magazine Archive

The uprise of land has been detected in various parts of the world.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

As many feathers as her form surround, Strange sight! peep forth so many watchful eyes, So many mouths and tattling tongues resound, So many ears among the plumes uprise.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

So when a sorcerer casts spiced herbs upon the flame, and scented vapour uprises, and in the vapour images appear.

From If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

The loud voices grow thin, the doors and walls of the school-room vanish before his eyes, and in their place uprises Rome the Great, the Urbs et Orbis and her million-voiced life.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles

Springing from the deepest and best that is implanted in man, it fertilizes the soil from which it uprises.

From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Aubertine Woodward Moore

Proudly uprises in the middle of the square the tall pillar—an immense trophy covered with plates of bronze from the monster crucible in which the captured cannon of the Austrians were melted down.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea

From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises, To Bromios ever glorying we came.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

I stood upon the bridge uprisen to see,   So that, if I had seized not on a rock,   Down had I fallen without being pushed.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

His son, Lord Lincoln, had heard Gladstone’s speech against the Reform Bill delivered in the Oxford Union, and had written home that “a man had uprisen in Israel.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

Then all at once, the whole dream-world vanishes, like uprisen ghosts at the crowing of the cock.

From Memories A Story of German Love by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

When he wrote it was a sentence of singular construction, truly indicative of how vague awe and dread had uprisen to take large standing beside simple humane solicitude.

From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

You have uprisen from the ashes of the past like the Phoenix of old.

From Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers

The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

He is doing it on the 50th birthday of an elegant declaration spawned by a citizen uprising aimed at preserving the state’s greatest treasure.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

The Flock uprising, though, is the stirrings of public understanding that none of this inevitable — and we have the right to fight back.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

Hasina, who denies the charges, was tried in absentia after fleeing to India during an anti-government uprising in 2024.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

During the Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s she and her family refused to build a fence around their home despite warnings that it was dangerous not to do so.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Last week, after weeks of preliminary rumblings, Premier Hepburn uprose in the Ontario Parliament in Toronto and begged leave to introduce a bill repudiating the contracts one & all as "illegal, void and unenforceable."

From Time Magazine Archive

Flushed with the importance of the occasion, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas, arch-inflationist of Congress, uprose in the Senate last week to open debate on the White House currency bill.

From Time Magazine Archive

When word got around that little Butch was going to North Africa, men uprose on Capitol Hill to thunder: "Political generals!"

From Time Magazine Archive

In '55 Disney uprose, Addin' Davy Crockett to the country's woes .

From Time Magazine Archive

Elizabeth's wondering eyes uprose from its perusal to the vision of a tall, stout lady attired in purple broadcloth who was being assisted from the carriage.

From And So They Were Married by Florence Morse Kingsley




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