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 Officers arrived and found Gonzalez in handcuffs with a gunshot wound to his midsection, the department said in a statement last week. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 The team arrived shortly after sunset, so fieldwork was postponed until morning. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The police arrived about a half hour later, by which time the men had left. — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Now, the third phase has arrived in the BCDC, right next door to Wallace. — John Voelcker, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2026 By the time police arrived, the men were gone, the sources said. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 Both titles arrived in 2024 with easy-to-read monsters that nevertheless got lukewarm receptions — but their box office performances tell us slightly different stories. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2026 After the man arrived in Nairobi, his relatives took him in a private vehicle to Nairobi Hospital, where he was immediately isolated. — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026 An agent is not an external system that arrived from somewhere else. — Aviv Mussinger, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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Verb

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 absence of a living monarch on our money, or on our travel documents, was not an accident haphazardly arrived at but a declaration of equality meant to be flourished and displayed.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
China has stepped up cooperation with Southeast Asian nations to crack down on a vast industry that has flourished in the region in recent years to fleece people out of billions of dollars.

— CBS News, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of flourished

Verb

In September, every ward in Sylhet's 100-bed Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital, which is treating measles, appeared overwhelmed.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
The migration of working-class and Hispanic voters toward Trump in 2024, which now appeared to be swinging back to the Democrats in the midterms, suggested an underlying instability.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of appeared

Verb

Eventually, in 1914, Jo succeeded in publishing Vincent’s letters in an ambitious three-volume book, which today is considered one of the most revealing and important works of art history.

— Joan Martelli, Time, 17 Oct. 2026
Fo succeeded at making the reservation, although the entire ordeal surely took longer than if Van Horn had picked up the phone himself and talked to the karaoke bar himself.

— Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of succeeded

Verb

Chance had five punts land inside the Baylor 20-yard line, including two that landed inside the Bears’ 5-yard line.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026
Some artifacts found on the island indicate Earhart and Noonan’s plane may have landed there, including glass bottles from the 1930s and a woman’s makeup compact, the expedition said.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of landed

Verb

There are countless shows and films from the likes of Imagine, Blumhouse, MRC, and others that make up the AEA that have thrived in the current ecosystem.

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
He’s thrived while finally given a full workload for the first time, showing terrific vision and explosion as a receiver and runner.

— Dalton Del Don, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of thrived

Verb

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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