ARRIVES Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

arrives 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of arrive

as in comes

to get to a destination when will the guests arrive?

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Relevance

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as in succeeds

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

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arrivés

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noun

plural of arrivé

as in comers

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The breakthrough arrives amid a broader push toward multifunctional synthetic skins. — New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026 Another push of cooler air arrives late Thursday, into Friday behind a dry cold front. — Rachael Jay, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 The festival arrives as Kansas City’s culinary landscape continues expanding, with Asian restaurants, cultural celebrations and food entrepreneurs gaining greater visibility throughout the region. — Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026 Agents run reports overnight, aggregate the results and prepare the dashboards before the team arrives. — Keith Ferrazzi, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 The internal hire arrives a little over a month after Alexandre Oulès was named chief operating officer of the LVMH beauty division and less than a week after the opening of the new Dior Beauty boutique in Illinois. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026 And so lyric arrives, unbridled by the laws of grammar, pressing its hooves to the measure of music. — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026 Proposition 45 arrives about a year after California lawmakers passed significant changes to CEQA. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 If your sales process makes a deadline sound easy but the work arrives late, customers remember. — Levi King, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

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Once Isaias comes ashore, it is expected to weaken until it is downgraded to a tropical storm by Saturday afternoon, the hurricane center said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
Again and again, Misty comes fully alive in the presence of others—a saving grace in a town that still often runs on chance meetings, fateful reunions, and testy but resilient relationships.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of comes

Verb

Construction site trial succeeds The team tested the complete system at an active construction site, where a worker wore the device for approximately 165 minutes while performing normal daily activities.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
Gotoh succeeds Marge Dean, Head of Skybound Animation Studio, who concludes a 13-year run as President this month.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of succeeds

Verb

There is a lot of money in the market, but some of it appears to be receding and the number of commissions is coming down.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
And because of the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act passed earlier this year, the company appears to be on track to have taxpayers foot the bill.

— H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of appears

Verb

Sitting here right now, this is exactly the environment where back to direct lending, where direct lending thrives, a rising rate environment, a strong economy, an uncertainty on the horizon.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
The show thrives instead in the interpersonal details, particularly in the many small hurts that develop into injuries to the soul.

— Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of thrives

Verb

This was never quite fair — the New York dynasty of the late ’90s was driven by smart drafting and patient prospect development, not pricey free agents — but the joke still lands.

— Will Leitch, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026
Unless the contract says otherwise, the cost of the new plant lands on the rest of us.

— Mark McNees, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of lands

Verb

When a family can work well together, support one another and share a common purpose, everyone prospers.

— Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
That is why Florida Republicans are taking the lead to make sure the state prospers as AI advances, instead of letting Silicon Valley write the rules.

— Brendan Steinhauser, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026

Definition of prospers

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