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arise from (something)

1. To stand up from a seated or prone position. My teenage son doesn't arise from his bed until one in the afternoon. Can you please help Grandma arise from her chair? Her back is really bothering her today. Any chance you can arise from the couch and put some of these groceries away?
2. To move in an upward direction. My heart started beating faster as the helicopter arose from the ground. My toddler squealed with delight as the bird arose from its branch and took flight. We watched in awe as the parasailer arose from the waters once the boat started moving.
3. To emerge from a bleak situation. Thanks to scholarships, I was able to go to a top college and arise from poverty. Wow, Miranda really seems to have arisen from ashes of her marriage better than ever. Thankfully, medication and therapy have allowed me to arise from the depths of depression.
4. To result from something. Many issues arose from the passing of that bill. Did you hear about all the car accidents that arose from that traffic light being out? Brace yourself—I expect considerable pushback to arise from our decision to cut funding.
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arise from something

 and arise out of something 
1. Lit. to get up from something. What time did you arise from bed? I arose out of my slumbers at dawn.
2. Lit. [for something] to drift upward from something. The smoke arose from the burning oil wells. The smoke arose out of the exhaust pipe.
3. Fig. to be due to something; to be caused by something. This whole problem arose from your stubbornness. The labor problem arose out of mismanagement.
4. Fig. [for someone] to come from poor or unfortunate circumstances. She arose from poverty to attain great wealth. She arose out of squalor through her own hard work.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

arise from

v.
1. To result, issue, or proceed from something: Many mistakes in mathematics arise from a misunderstanding of the basic concepts.
2. To move upward from something; ascend from something: The hot air balloons slowly arose from the ground.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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The recently issued proposed regulations offer somewhat conflicting advice on the proper treatment when the payments arise from a redemption.
[2,3] unilateral polyps that arise from the anterior end of the middle turbinate are rare; when they do occur, they can cause a middle meatal obstruction, which can result in maxillary, ethmoid, or frontal sinusitis.
[2-6] Tumors of the facial nerve arise from the neural crest (neuroectoderm) and can be either benign (e.g., neurilemmomas, neurofibromas, ganglioneuromas, and paragangliomas) or malignant (e.g., neurosarcomas, neuroblastomas, and malignant paragangliomas).
Neurilemmomas arise from the neural sheath of the peripheral sensory, motor, sympathetic, and cranial nerves (with the exception of the optic and olfactory nerves).
These tumors are pathologically identical to the more common adenoid cystic carcinomas of the major and minor salivary glands, but they arise from within the mandible or maxilla and can extend to the more usual locations.
[2] It is thought to arise from the intercalated ducts of mucus-secreting glands.
At operation, the papilloma was found to arise from the floor of the left maxillary sinus.
Squamous papillomas usually arise from the nasal vestibule.
In light of this finding, it is presumed that these cysts usually arise from the second branchial arch, and they are classified as type IV cysts according to Proctor's classification (table 2).
Teratomas are rare congenital neoplasms that arise from pluripotent cells.
Polyps can arise from the uncinate process (figure, A); the ethmoid infundibulum (figure, B); the ethmoid bulla (figure, C); the frontal recess (figure, D); the suprabullar and retrobullar recesses; the superior and inferior hiatus semilunaris; the superior, middle, and inferior turbinates and meatus (figure, G, H, I).
Most nasal poiyps arise from the anterior ethmoid or its immediate vicinity.
[21,22] Recent immunohistochemical studies have shown that the expression of the lysosome-associated glycoprotein CD68 is common to both granular cell tumors and schwannomas, which lends even more support to the hypothesis that granular cell tumors arise from Schwann cells.
During the operation, the stalk of the polyp was found to arise from the mucosa of the right superior turbinate.
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