ARISEN Synonyms: 157 Similar and Opposite Words

arisen

verb

past participle of arise

as in risen

to leave one's bed the travelers arose before dawn and were on their way as the sun came up

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as in emerged

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly note in your report any problems that arise while you are conducting the experiment

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as in originated

to come into existence it is not known exactly how mammals arose, but scientists date the earliest mammals to the Triassic period

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as in ascended

to move or extend upward slowly the hot-air balloon arose, and the round-the-world flight was begun

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Recent Examples of arisen Another question that has arisen as Walter’s financial troubles have garnered headlines is whether MLB would conduct its own investigation into Dodgers ownership or pressure the billionaire and his partners to sell the team. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Speculations have arisen about the possibilities that plants’ cellular consciousness is aware of cellular death beyond their immediate environment. — Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026 Some hiccups, including a miscue backing up a ball and the soreness, have arisen. — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026 The spike in 2026 when the Iran War began is a good example of when to watch oil prices—though no recession signs have yet arisen as of this writing. — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Other questions have already arisen across college athletics. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026 However, inconsistencies and biases in the study’s findings have arisen over the years, leading researchers to scrutinize the data more closely. — Versha Pleasant, The Conversation, 30 July 2026 For Birney, well-regarded if hardly widely known, an unexpected secondary issue has arisen as more people encounter Blue Film. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026 Other societal tensions have already arisen around South Korean chipmakers’ burgeoning profits from the AI boom. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for arisen

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Cases have risen sharply in recent years as clinicians have struggled to find interventions to treat it.

— Katia Riddle, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026
The Anti-Defamation League recorded 2,024 antisemitic incidents in 2020, but by 2024 that number had risen to 9,354 — a more than fourfold increase.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of risen

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Newcastle’s summer wobbled when news emerged in late June that Guimaraes was fixed on Arsenal.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
The honeypot sites of royal Rajasthan—spliced by the brown slopes of the Aravalli Range, the state emerged after Partition from a mosaic of 22 feudal kingdoms—are so many people’s taster to India.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of emerged

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Other, more peripheral allies of the president have also ascended over the past year to wield more outside influence on certain issues — among them, Republican operative Roger Stone.

— Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 31 Aug. 2026
At that time, his eldest daughter, Maria Adelaide, ascended to the throne—a succession made possible by the abolition of the Salic Law, which had restricted the line of succession to males only.

— Giorgia Olivieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of ascended

Verb

The accident occurred during a demonstration flight with pilot Orville Wright in the Wright Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia.

— USA Today, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
The vote occurred shortly after the House, along bipartisan lines, passed a funding measure keeping the government open through mid-December.

— Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of occurred

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His father, Charles, had expanded the New Jersey real estate development business his grandfather, a Polish Holocaust survivor, had begun after starting out as a construction laborer.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
The tenants union said North Lawn residents have also begun negotiations with new property owner, Shawn Johnson of Vital20 LLC and Rubicon Realty LLC.

— Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of begun

Verb

Unitree soared 460% the day of its IPO in Shanghai last week, but has retreated some 27% since then, according to LSEG data.

— Anniek Bao,Elaine Yu, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
One of the newest members of the billionaire club, Scale AI cofounder Lucy Guo, is a more recent example of someone whose spending habits have remained relatively modest as her fortune has soared.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

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