arrived

verb

past tense of arrive
1
as in came
to get to a destination when will the guests arrive?

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2
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 This may be Houston’s best offensive line since Willie Fritz arrived. — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 That letter — which arrived in June – only served to pique the Sentinel’s interest. — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026 Vela Gonzalez arrived in time to qualify for the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which provided nearly three million undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Club managers remained at the scene until police arrived, Aranda said. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2026 Once the mother arrived, deputies spoke with her and inspected the home. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2026 The driver of the Mercedes-Benz remained at the scene until authorities arrived. — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026 Sir Timothy Laurence and Princess Anne arrived alongside Prince Edward and his daughter, Lady Louise Windsor. — Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 1 Sep. 2026 Here's what went wrong NASA astronaut Anil Menon arrived in mid-July at the space station with Russians Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina on a Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft for an eight-month mission. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrived
  1. came
  2. flourished
  3. appeared
  4. succeeded
  5. landed
  6. thrived
  7. prospered
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
Verb
  • The ’50s saw a major expansion as launch pads flourished along what was called Missile Row, allowing for more powerful rockets like Redstone, Atlas and Saturn to fly.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The earliest arguments for the non-existence of time go back to the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, Parmenides of Elea, in southwest Italy, who flourished in the fifth century BCE.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of flourished
Verb
  • Marte’s line drive exited his bat at 93 mph and appeared to glance off the left side of Perdomo’s head.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Scary moment The game was delayed several minutes early in the third quarter after Northwestern offensive lineman Jackson Carsello appeared to take a teammate’s knee to his helmet at the end of a play.
    — Scott Held, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of appeared
Verb
  • But Musk, for the most part, succeeded in hushing up the lawsuits, the federal investigations, and the fatal crashes, which were evidence of a recklessness that should have given the whole world pause.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Using geometric methods, Theaetetus, a mathematician and a contemporary of Plato, succeeded in proving that there are no more than five of these highly symmetrical bodies.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of succeeded
Verb
  • Idzik helped Canales prepare for offensive coordinator interviews when both were in Seattle, then accompanied him to Tampa when Canales landed the OC job with the Buccaneers in 2023.
    — Joseph Person, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The blast landed just beyond the right-field wall — a 366-foot solo shot.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of landed
Verb
  • The show has thrived with its changing global locations and challenges, and without A-list star power.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Pairing Aflac, which has thrived with commercials featuring an anthropomorphic duck squawking out its name, and Affleck.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Sep. 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
Definition of prospered

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