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noun

ˈrī-ziŋ How to pronounce rising (audio)
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as in revolt
open fighting against authority (as one's own government) a great rising of the people was all it took to bring down a regime that imagined that it would endure for a thousand years

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2
as in climb
the act or an instance of rising or climbing up the rising of the sun

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rising

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verb

present participle of rise
1
as in increasing
to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number the snow accumulation is rising at an alarming rate

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2
as in waking
to leave one's bed I generally rise around six and leave for work by seven

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3
as in ascending
to move or extend upward mountains majestically rising towards the sky

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Recent Examples of rising
Noun
There’s also a valuable dark-sky window around the month’s New Moon, the arrival of the summer solstice and the rising of the Strawberry Moon late in the month. — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 Underlying the Persian Gulf itself is a basin filled with debris eroded from the rising of the Zagros Mountains. — Scott L. Montgomery, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
Verb
The convergence around affordability Ads from both parties are tying data centers to rising energy costs. — Maham Javaid, NPR, 5 Sep. 2026 The bank said capacity constraints and rising competition are weighing on ASML, but that the stock remains a top pick. — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for rising
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rising
  1. revolt
  2. climb
  3. increasing
  4. waking
  5. ascending
  6. uprising
  7. ascent
  8. swelling
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  • The tax revolt was a successful attempt by a small group of ideologues to capitalize on people’s justifiable anger at the cost-of-living crisis that followed the war in Vietnam, along with California’s runaway home prices.
    — Maggie McGowan, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Corbet issued a statement defending the AI use cases amid swelling online revolt.
    — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026
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  • In typical Zheng fashion, she’s been upfront about what she’s learned as she’s begun the long climb back to the top of the sport.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Oil prices pared some gains midday before resuming their climb in the afternoon.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of climb
Verb
  • According to Borges de Moraes, cases like Pourrain’s are increasing under the current administration.
    — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Cancer rising among younger ages The question of why colorectal cancer cases are increasing among younger adults has been an ongoing one within medicine.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
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  • Nobody ever seriously believed Belichick was going to morph into a headphones-wearing, sideline-waking Susan Lucci, the soap opera megastar who waited 19 years before finally winning a Daytime Emmy.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The 30-30-30 method calls for eating 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking, followed by 30 minutes of low-intensity movement.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026
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  • Just like that, a team that won the Super Bowl while still ascending heard its first thump of the new season.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The late monarch reigned for 35 years, after ascending the throne in 1991 following his own father’s death.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026
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Noun
  • Suddenly, the humble farmer has incited a countrywide uprising.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Following the Second World War, the United Kingdom had introduced a new National Service Act; in the early fifties, this often meant fighting in Korea, or battling an uprising against colonial rule in British Malaya, where Ascherson was deployed.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
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  • Word of the young forward’s ascent to that elite bracket was quietly delivered by his then Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier in a 2001 telephone call, but Owen, only 22 at the time, remembers it as carrying little significance.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This season, the Chargers have a long runway followed by a dramatic ascent.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of ascent
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  • For years, the fixation on Islamist terror shaped a culture drenched in fear, as voices from politics, the media, civil society, and a swelling counterterrorism-industrial complex insisted that the country faced an existential threat.
    — Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
  • If the lighting is controlled, the performances restrained (with room for outbursts, of course), and the score swelling at the right moments, the work will register as important.
    — Henry Metz, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
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“Rising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rising. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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