: approaching a stated age : nearly
a red cow rising four years old—
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Noun
He was the leader of an armed rising against the elected government.
a great rising of the people was all it took to bring down a regime that imagined that it would endure for a thousand years
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
As much as the world is spiraling with disinformation, chaos, and control tactics, there is also a counter-energy rising — a movement toward slowness, integrity, pleasure, and repair.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 June 2025
According to the archaeologist, the Octagon served as a sort of celestial calendar, marking the northernmost limits of the rising of the moon during an 18.6-year cycle.
—Kevin Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
Like guttering candles, the rebellion spent itself in uncoordinated risings at different times in different parts of the country.
—Joseph Patrick Kelly, The Conversation, 20 May 2025
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The worst may yet to come as the companies buoyed by the rising of AI and its use are brought down to earth by a combination of new methods and the lessening of compute needed to do training as well as inference.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
As much as the world is spiraling with disinformation, chaos, and control tactics, there is also a counter-energy rising — a movement toward slowness, integrity, pleasure, and repair.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 June 2025
According to the archaeologist, the Octagon served as a sort of celestial calendar, marking the northernmost limits of the rising of the moon during an 18.6-year cycle.
—Kevin Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
Like guttering candles, the rebellion spent itself in uncoordinated risings at different times in different parts of the country.
—Joseph Patrick Kelly, The Conversation, 20 May 2025
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“Rising.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rising. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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