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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of arrive.

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Examples

  • So I rushed out, and the bus had just come, and when I got to the station, the train had just arrived, and I transferred at Dhoby Ghaut to the NEL, and the train had just arrived…

    j-gan Diary Entry j-gan 2007

  • The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy".

    Out of the Mouths of Babes Dodie Bellamy 2009

  • Cesar Milstein arrived from the Argentine to join Fred Sanger soon afterwards.

    The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology 1997

  • The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means

    Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed 2010

  • The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy"

    Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed 2009

  • The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means

    Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed 2009

  • And so the first day of the new term arrived, and Harry set off to lessons, weighed down with books, parchment, and quills as usual, but also with the lurking worry of the egg heavy in his stomach, as though he were carrying that around with him too.

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000

  • Once the name arrived, all kinds of things, seemingly random experiences and memories, gradually began to take a form that was congruent with who I was becoming, like finding a glove that fit my hand perfectly - a calling, a fusion of all the pieces of my life, a vocation: Pastor.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Indie dance is back, so is Balearic music, there's talk of a grunge revival, and you can't move for shoegazing, albeit under the guise of chillwave, a title arrived at after a lengthy, quarrelsome but ultimately successful meeting called to devise an even worse name for a genre than shoegazing.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • This book did fine in hard cover but when our team saw Kelly's viral video and taped an interview with here for online programming we knew that when the trade paper version of this title arrived we had a special opportunity to connect Kelly's book with our customers.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

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