come into being
idiom
: to begin to exist : to come to be
The story of how the university came into being is quite fascinating.
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That is unusually soon, cosmically speaking, for so massive a black hole to have come into being through stellar collapses and mergers.
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Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Together the show and book direct our attention to the process and the teamwork by which these sensory environments come into being.
—Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
A lot had to happen for our Solar System to come into being.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
Whole cities have come into being for this very thing.
—Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2023
One of the film’s earliest, most important points is that the color line broken by Jackie Robinson in 1947 didn’t come into being the moment baseball was invented.
—Michael Nordine, Variety, 13 July 2023
For a day or so, this utopia seemed to come into being, as the people of many nations came to agree about at least one thing: the time.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
After all, Asian American studies programs have often come into being during times of social unrest and change, as a result of student activism.
—New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
Lim asked Weerasethakul and Swinton how the character of Jessica had come into being.
—The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Together the show and book direct our attention to the process and the teamwork by which these sensory environments come into being.
—Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
A lot had to happen for our Solar System to come into being.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
Whole cities have come into being for this very thing.
—Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2023
One of the film’s earliest, most important points is that the color line broken by Jackie Robinson in 1947 didn’t come into being the moment baseball was invented.
—Michael Nordine, Variety, 13 July 2023
For a day or so, this utopia seemed to come into being, as the people of many nations came to agree about at least one thing: the time.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
After all, Asian American studies programs have often come into being during times of social unrest and change, as a result of student activism.
—New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
Lim asked Weerasethakul and Swinton how the character of Jessica had come into being.
—The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
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