came about

verb

past tense of come about
as in happened
to take place how did all this come about?

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Recent Examples of came about But the same couldn’t be said for how the goal came about — a deep cross delivered by Xavi — or how it was finished. — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 10 July 2026 The new location came about through one of those relationships. — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026 By decade’s end, however, the idea of continuing the Evil Dead franchise after Army of Darkness was in limbo until the idea of reimaging the original Evil Dead movie came about. — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 The trail came about when the Adventure Cycling Association and several federal, state, and local government agencies teamed up to realize their vision of building the largest public bike route network in the world. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2026 Coward came about with the help of the Tax Shelter Measure of the Belgian Federal Government, Casa Kafka & Lumière Invest. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 30 June 2026 The crash came about after a skydiving plane crashed on June 14 in Butler, Missouri, killing the pilot and 11 skydivers, officials said. — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 28 June 2026 Norton asked the singer how that outfit came about. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026 The way the loss came about should be raising alarm bells inside the US camp. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for came about
  1. happened
  2. was
  3. went on
  4. came down
  5. came
  6. occurred
Verb
  • Argentina triumphed on penalties in 1998, after David Beckham was sent off, and England won via a penalty in 2002, when Beckham went some way to atoning for what happened four years earlier by converting from the spot.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • What happened, Wells' parents say, is a mystery riddled with conflicting stories, implausible explanations and missing details.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
Definition of happened
Verb
  • There was, however, criticism of the deal among legal and immigrant advocates.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 14 July 2026
  • There was no immediate word from the Jazz on Alexander's injury.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Definition of was
Verb
  • As the match went on, realising that his team had the upper hand in possession, Solbakken introduced technical wingers from the bench in Oscar Bobb and Andreas Schjelderup to better dictate the flow of play.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 11 July 2026
  • It’s been one week since Nolan Wells and his friends went on a Fourth of July trip to Horn Island – an uninhabited stretch of pristine wilderness off the Mississippi coast with no shelters, no facilities and no communications.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Definition of went on
Verb
  • During production, O’Neil came down with a mild case of dengue fever that kept him at their hotel for some days.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 10 July 2026
  • The game included nine triple stumpers and came down to Final Jeopardy!
    — USA TODAY Staff, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Definition of came down
Verb
  • That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
Definition of came
Verb
  • During a family fun night Monday at Summit Waves in Lee’s Summit, two incidents occurred, one involving a gun, according to the city’s parks and recreation department.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026
  • Rock House is not only a reminder of Alexander’s achievements, a planter, blacksmith and leader of the American Revolution in Mecklenburg County, but also the enslavement of at least 17 people that occurred there.
    — Laura Horne, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2026
Definition of occurred

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