as in advent
the act of coming upon a scene
spring's late arrival meant we were still skiing in mid-April the groom blamed his belated arrival for the wedding on a huge traffic snarl
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Recent Examples of arrival
Tova’s existence is about to be upended by the arrival of another flighty young man.
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 May 2026
The Australian policy of refusing to allow boat arrivals to settle has largely ended people smuggling from Southeast Asian ports in rickety fishing boats that had once thrived.
—ABC News, 6 May 2026
The Mark Hotel is a main gathering spot for Met Gala arrivals.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 6 May 2026
Center Tyler Linderbaum’s arrival gives the Raiders’ offensive line an anchor.
—Sam Warren, New York Times, 6 May 2026
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 May 2026
The Australian policy of refusing to allow boat arrivals to settle has largely ended people smuggling from Southeast Asian ports in rickety fishing boats that had once thrived.
—ABC News, 6 May 2026
The Mark Hotel is a main gathering spot for Met Gala arrivals.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 6 May 2026
Center Tyler Linderbaum’s arrival gives the Raiders’ offensive line an anchor.
—Sam Warren, New York Times, 6 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrival
Noun
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But, with the advent of platforms such as Instagram and YouTube, the online self became highly saleable.—
T. M. Brown,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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The polio vaccine is one of the greatest public health achievements of our time, protecting against a paralyzing and potentially life-threatening virus that once struck fear in the hearts of parents prior to the advent of the vaccine in 1955.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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The father-daughter duo typically make an annual appearance at the Barnstable Brown Gala, which benefits the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center at the University of Kentucky.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
2 May 2026
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Seidler took over as club chairman in November 2020, shortly after the team made its first playoff appearance in 20 seasons.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 May 2026
Noun
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Now, with the two-season show wrapped in 2021, Konkle has unearthed another chapter of her complicated coming of age.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
6 May 2026
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Four years later, his old friend Paul Rayburn (Bobby Cannavale) arrives to rescue him from himself, carting him down to Rio, where Rayburn is working for a security company on a construction site — there is a presidential election coming, and protests are feared.—
Robert Lloyd,
Houston Chronicle,
1 May 2026
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“Arrival.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrival. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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