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Recent Examples of riser
Green has arguably been the biggest riser in this year’s draft class, considering 2024 was his first season as a full-time starter.
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Eddie Brown, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
Grissom wasn’t necessarily supposed to be a fast riser.
—Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
One of the biggest risers this year was the Washington Commanders.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
Four chairs sit upstage on a riser for the quartet of elders.
—Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2025
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Eddie Brown, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
Grissom wasn’t necessarily supposed to be a fast riser.
—Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
One of the biggest risers this year was the Washington Commanders.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
Four chairs sit upstage on a riser for the quartet of elders.
—Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for riser
Noun
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On North Graham Street drivers pass companies that rent scaffolds, fabricate steel, create custom shelves and sell and retread tires for commercial vehicles.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Feb. 2025
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The brain places those pieces onto the scaffolds of event scripts.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Married at First Sight participants meet for the first time at the altar, while Love Is Blind contestants spend a mere 10 days in pods before making lifelong commitments.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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Allegedly, Sara and Joey are dating, a year after rejecting Ben and Monica, respectively, at the altar in the season eight finale.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Their majority was led by new Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, R-Georgia, who dramatically accelerated the trend of shifting that office from a relatively nonpartisan to highly partisan pulpit.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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Speaking at the pulpit of the city’s historic Tabernacle Baptist Church, the site of the first mass meeting of the voting rights movement, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said what happened in Selma changed the nation.—
Kim Chandler and Safiyah Riddle,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2025
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“Riser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/riser. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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