ARRIVED Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

arrived

verb

past tense of arrive

as in came

to get to a destination when will the guests arrive?

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as in flourished

to reach a desired level of accomplishment the actress knew she'd arrived when she received an Oscar nomination

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Recent Examples of arrived Officers arrived and found Gonzalez in handcuffs with a gunshot wound to his midsection, the department said in a statement last week. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 The team arrived shortly after sunset, so fieldwork was postponed until morning. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The police arrived about a half hour later, by which time the men had left. — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Now, the third phase has arrived in the BCDC, right next door to Wallace. — John Voelcker, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2026 By the time police arrived, the men were gone, the sources said. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 Both titles arrived in 2024 with easy-to-read monsters that nevertheless got lukewarm receptions — but their box office performances tell us slightly different stories. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2026 After the man arrived in Nairobi, his relatives took him in a private vehicle to Nairobi Hospital, where he was immediately isolated. — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026 An agent is not an external system that arrived from somewhere else. — Aviv Mussinger, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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Verb

That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.

— Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.

— Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025

Definition of came

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Left to her own devices, the former Danity Kane and Diddy - Dirty Money member has flourished creatively.

— Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
In the Ming era, for instance, foreign beliefs such as Manichaeism, a Persian faith that had flourished under Mongol rule, were suppressed.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of flourished

Verb

But Israeli commentators also professed shock, if not surprise, Sunday at how closely aligned the journalist and spin doctor appeared to be.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Huppert, who has appeared in three Hong films, was elected this year as the first female president of the Cinémathèque Française.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of appeared

Verb

The shallow cultural footprint of these titles, at least two of which succeeded critically and/or financially, testifies to comedy’s waning as a cinematic form.

— Dan Brooks, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
Washington has fought back hard against this effort, and has recently succeeded at helping tankers pass through the chokepoint.

— Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of succeeded

Verb

While subgenres like alternative and metal have thrived, straight-ahead rock has almost seemed like a museum piece, with much of its sound and energy migrating to Nashville and morphing with country.

— Jem Aswad, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
But Kansas City is known for its cold weather later in the season, especially come playoff time, when he’s thrived in the past playing under head coach Andy Reid and offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, who returned to the Chiefs this year.

— Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of thrived

Verb

Mystic, when his great, great, great- grandfather prospered in the shipping industry.

— Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026
The original finders prospered, with George, Jim, and Charlie making about $1 million in gold, while word of their discovery spread.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Aug. 2026

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