1
as in to come
to get to a destination
when will the guests arrive?
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2
as in to succeed
to reach a desired level of accomplishment
the actress knew she'd arrived when she received an Oscar nomination
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as in comer
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Recent Examples of arrive
Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
A number of celebrity guests, including Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner have arrived to previous Cannes Film Festivals in looks that teetered on the edge of full nudity—often using large jewelry pieces and sheer paneling to partially cover up the models’ otherwise exposed breasts.
—Elizabeth Grace Coyne, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Noel Murray, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Like its first season, the drama’s sixth one arrives designed to meet this moment, showing us the risks that must be taken, again and again, to dismantle an out-of-control, overreaching power structure.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
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Verb
The documents arrived in Argentina on June 20, 1941, aboard a ship sent by the German embassy in Tokyo.
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The infected arrive en masse at the community’s gates, called to action perhaps by the cordyceps hive-mind within those decaying pipes.
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Research from the American Medical Association found that nearly all doctors believe AI tools can only succeed if they're fully integrated with electronic health records.—
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Both productions succeeded in repositioning Salome as a perverse instrument of justice.—
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After Yie Air Kung Fu (1984) and International Karate (1985) introduced the idea of one-on-one martial arts battles, Capcom threw its hat into the digital ring in 1987 with Street Fighter, where a scrappy young fighter named Ryu took on all comers.—
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But as a junior college, Carberry took on all comers.—
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Benson made a brief but memorable cameo in the live-action film, appearing as a vendor at a marketplace who hands Bailey a fork on land.—
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The convex & concave mirrors forming the book jacket exaggerate expressions, making others appear stretched, squished, & altered, mirroring the elasticity of the poems themselves.—
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This perennial Mediterranean herb thrives in hot, dry sites.—
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Apathy thrives in environments where people feel like their work doesn’t matter.—
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Gerard Gallant Gallant excelled with a young group in Florida and with a bunch of upstarts during the nascent stages of the Vegas Golden Knights franchise, including their inaugural campaign that took them all the way to the Stanley Cup Final.—
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But the upstart wrestler is poised to run into one of the biggest challenges of her young career – go after a legendary competitor in Charlotte Flair.—
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Anyway, Trump’s family businesses are flourishing during – and thanks to – his second term as president.—
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Some players just flourish in the right situations.—
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The prince’s daughter Concetta is initially enamored of Tancredi, but his eye is caught by the beautiful Angelica, daughter of vulgar nouveau riche neighbor Don Calogero.—
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In Rivals, Dyer plays a complex, nouveau riche tech entrepreneur who strikes up an unlikely romance with local author Lizzie (Katherine Parkinson).—
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“Arrive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrive. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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