arose
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Melissa Grant, Carafem’s chief operations officer, said the past few years of chaos in U.S. abortion regulations prepared the organization to be nimble when the need arose.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
The idea, like many good ones, arose by accident.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
Orders rose sharply in March, a signal of potential front-running to manage rising energy prices and supply disruptions that arose after the start of the war in Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
The core issue, it explained, seemingly arose while training its models to communicate in the style of particular personalities - in this case with its "nerdy personality".
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
Anthropologists, studying language, had demonstrated that new languages arose from old languages through the transformation of words.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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