arrive at

phrase

: to reach by effort or thought

arrived at a decision

Examples of arrive at in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Yet, the board accepts no culpability for arriving at this situation. — Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026

This could help engineers identify more effective recycling configurations while keeping a record of how the system arrived at its recommendations. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026

The Socialist leader replied in his own letter by recalling that Spain had taken in migrants who arrived at eastern European nations from Belarus in 2021 and at the southern Italian island of Lampedusa in 2023. — Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026

The recovery of the work was the result of a months-long investigation dubbed Operation Salvatierra, in which police traced the work through several buyers before arriving at the auction house in Barcelona. — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1616, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for arrive at

• aristocrat
• magnificat
• acrobat
• autocrat
• automat
• bundesrat
• bureaucrat
• butterfat
• caveat
• chemostat
• copycat
• cryostat