ARRIVED Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

arrived

verb

past tense of arrive

as in came

to get to a destination when will the guests arrive?

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as in flourished

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

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Recent Examples of arrived Over 7 million people were eligible to vote, and tens of thousands reportedly arrived from overseas. — Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026 Police 22-year-old Hampton fled the scene before officers arrived, but was located, arrested and charged with murder later that day. — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026 More than 7 million people are eligible to vote, and tens of thousands have reportedly arrived from overseas. — Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026 Luxury apartment towers such as MiCA Apartments and L Logan Square Apartments now line Milwaukee Avenue, and new retailers are moving in to serve recently arrived residents. — Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026 At one point, Vance, who arrived in Topeka fresh off another rally in Montana, warned against electing Hamilton to represent Texas. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2026 The first book in the Letters of Enchantment Series arrived April 2023 followed by its sequel, Ruthless Vows, in December the same year. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2026 Bakkila skipped the brand’s optional white glove delivery, and her king-size mattress arrived in two heavy boxes with the latex layers packaged separately inside a zippered cover for assembly at home. — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026 More than a games console The original Atari 800XL arrived in 1983 with 64 KB of memory, a full-sized keyboard and dedicated graphics and sound chips. — New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026

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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

Definition of came

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The demand has grown so high that an underground gray market has flourished in delivering those cult-classic burgers to hungry customers.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
In this respect this limited expansion differed fundamentally from the chain stores that flourished from the 1990s.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of flourished

Verb

Anderson said the man appeared to have died of natural causes and that no foul play was suspected.

— Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Nigeria's Health Minister Muhammad Pate said Friday that the woman's infection appeared closely related to Kenya's first case, while cautioning that this did not necessarily establish the transmission route.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of appeared

Verb

He was reelected four years later and was succeeded by one of his cabinet ministers, Dilma Rousseff, in 2010.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
He was reelected four years later and was succeeded by one of his Cabinet ministers, Dilma Rousseff, in 2010.

— Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of succeeded

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Our species was born in the cold Pleistocene, thrived in the comfortable Holocene, and may have plunged Earth into this new epoch, defined by our own dominance.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Shooters have thrived in Campbell’s spacing due to how much attention point guards and bigs generate off the pick-and-roll.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of thrived

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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

Definition of prospered

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