arise
verb (used without object)
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise.
has arisen
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present perfectof arise (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The seahorse look has arisen more than once, and these fish are a case of it evolving well away from the true seahorses.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
A narrative has arisen that AI will obsolete software vendors and their per-user subscription revenue model, and Friday’s news played into that story.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Above a muddled Southland college basketball landscape, a heartwarming, heartstopping story has arisen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026
Life has arisen, magically, on Earth; it has become intelligent and started to explore the worlds around it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
We choose fi — V3, implying a total number of planets in the Milky Way on which life has arisen at least once as N,fpnefi — 1 X 1011, a hundred billion inhabited worlds.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
