How to Use give rise to in a Sentence
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The spectacle gave rise to self-starters like Ai who sought to cash in on the growing hype.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
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The result is a record as deeply personal as the circumstances that gave rise to it.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2026
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This presents a risk in human embryo editing because that embryo will give rise to every cell in the body.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
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His was a body of work that demanded much, gave much—an evolutionary process that gave rise to the listener’s own.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
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This has given rise to a long-simmering debate between them and the fishing and boating public.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
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But not the kinds of rich, layered sentences that have shaped our brains for centuries and given rise to many academic disciplines.
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
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As that cell divides, embryonic stem cells give rise to the trillions of specialized cells that form the body’s organs and tissues.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 July 2026
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Or were the essential components already here that eventually gave rise to our solar system?
—CBS News, 13 July 2026
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Usually, the events that create high-energy neutrinos also give rise to high-energy photons called gamma-rays.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 July 2026
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When they are placed in contact at a zero angle alignment, the small difference in the lattices gives rise to a long wavelength moire pattern, or interference pattern.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Aug. 2018
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The same biological world that gives rise to forests, coral reefs and human life also produces infections, cancer, genetic disease, crop blights and toxins.
—Tara Deans, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
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More recently, scientists have learned more about the tree’s genome – its complete set of DNA – including how its genes are expressed, interact and give rise to traits.
—Steve Strauss, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
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The Dalai Lama’s political displacement gave rise to a global spiritual phenomenon.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026
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Rohmer’s great literary achievement is twofold—artistic success and worldly failure—which gave rise to his cinema of substitute gratifications, second chances, and miraculous redemptions.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
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Although there is much to celebrate about the ways in which the internet has connected us, the permanence of the internet has given rise to censorship pressures—both individually and institutionally.
—Annabelle Garland, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
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But a leadership vacuum could fracture the Tibetan movement, potentially giving rise to younger, more radical factions that agitate for total independence, perhaps even violently.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026
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Their street protests across the 2000s ultimately gave rise to future freedom fighter Volodymyr Zelensky being elected president in 2019, with a hyper-tech campaign across Ukraine’s cybersphere that was engineered by Web wunderkind Mykhailo Fedorov.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
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