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  • noun Plural form of rising.

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Examples

  • The following years of Turkish misrule, and especially the young Turkish policy of treacherous force, which resulted in Albanian risings every year, may possibly have caused many

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • But the Republican here who's described as a risings star in the Republican Party, Peter Roskam is in a fight for his life.

    CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2006 2006

  • For the government failed to realize that the actual cause of the risings was the general impoverishment, and saw in them a nationalist movement, thus actually arousing a national consciousness, stronger than in the Ming epoch, among the middle and lower classes of the people, together with hatred of the Manchus.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • And at many "risings" of the road, where the climbing is stiff and burdensome, we shall be inspired with many a glorious view, and we shall see "the land that is very far off."

    My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett

  • I also reverted to my preferred breadmaking method (okay, so I did some years ago with my mum), which involves two 'risings'.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2008

  • A temperature increase of that magnitude will among other things result in drastic change in water availability, sea level risings and never before seen weather phenomena.

    Erik Rasmussen: Notice of Drafting: The World Wants You! Erik Rasmussen 2011

  • The successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt—as much as the unresolved risings in Syria, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere—are running against the grain of the tenets of bin Ladenism.

    The Muslim World After Bin Laden 2011

  • Heads of officials fell everywhere, being replaced by Chong Mong-ju's appointees; but there were no risings against the dynasty.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • They live just five blocks from her but with their paper route and bicycles and horses and early morning risings, they live a more rural existence.

    Kent Haruf discusses Plainsong 2010

  • He knows that Americans feel the heavy weight of risings costs.

    Live Blog: Daschle Returns to the Senate - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

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