arrived

past tense of arrive

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Recent Examples of arrived As a result, the Faulkner County Animal Shelter was contacted and later arrived to assist with the investigation. Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026 The teams that will be ready for whatever AI does next aren’t the ones who arrived knowing the most. Brittany Murrey, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 Colt Emerson didn’t immediately produce, but Cole Young was solid, Michael Arroyo and Lazaro Montes have arrived, and 22-year-old Anderson made his big-league debut just weeks after Keith Law named him the top prospect in all of baseball. Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 When winter arrived, Caltrans dispatched him east to Caples Lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains to work as a chain controller — part of an annual seasonal draw from valley yards to keep heavy mountain passes operational. Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026 Eventually, overwhelming boos from the rest of the crowd directed at the people fighting, and then security arrived to handle it. David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026 But with recent breakthroughs, no one can deny that AI large language models (LLMs) have fully arrived in mathematical research and could dramatically change the field. Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026 The following day, the National Transportation Safety Board arrived. Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026 When the skies cleared Sunday, hundreds arrived for the festival’s final day, filling much of the grounds. J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrived
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
Verb
  • The bookshelf becomes a collective record of the times, ways of seeing, forms that flourished during particular eras, and also questions that persist across centuries.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • After Mekhi Nelson, Isaiah Mozee and Jamal Rule totaled 329 yards and five scores on 35 touches in the opener, the three-back system flourished against Bowling Green to the tune of 239 yards and two touchdowns on 27 touches.
    Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026
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
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
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
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
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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“Arrived.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrived. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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