as in happened
to take place
let's wait and see what comes down at the meeting
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Recent Examples of came down
Before all the heavy equipment came down Hickman Street, people had snowbanks blocking their on-street parking and had to carve out paths to walk around.
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Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
The game included 13 triple stumpers and came down to Final Jeopardy!
—Usa Today Staff, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
Those violence rates often came down remarkably fast once the improvement began, and more effective policing was the common element in that progress.
—John Schmidt, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
As the crowd came down the street toward the makeshift memorial set up for Renee Nicole Good, a chorus of voices could be heard as a protester with a megaphone led the emotional, peaceful crowd through a series of chants.
—Julia Ainsley, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
Seasoned by past experiences, including two playoff losses that came down to the final moments.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
After that initial week, my buddies from college came down to see me, which was super nice.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
Shortly after, three other homes came down.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The last time these schools met was in the 2024 Vocational (Small) Bowl, which came down to the wire (36-30 in favor of Tri-County).
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
The game included 13 triple stumpers and came down to Final Jeopardy!
—Usa Today Staff, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
Those violence rates often came down remarkably fast once the improvement began, and more effective policing was the common element in that progress.
—John Schmidt, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
As the crowd came down the street toward the makeshift memorial set up for Renee Nicole Good, a chorus of voices could be heard as a protester with a megaphone led the emotional, peaceful crowd through a series of chants.
—Julia Ainsley, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
Seasoned by past experiences, including two playoff losses that came down to the final moments.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
After that initial week, my buddies from college came down to see me, which was super nice.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
Shortly after, three other homes came down.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The last time these schools met was in the 2024 Vocational (Small) Bowl, which came down to the wire (36-30 in favor of Tri-County).
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for came down
Verb
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Thursday's crash happened near the city of Durban in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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Nevils explains in her book how this message was jarringly confusing and led her to second-guess what had happened, ultimately leading her back to the belief that the nature of the encounter was nothing alarming.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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In between acts, there was a dance intermission featuring background dancers, including a solo female dancer performing a contemporary piece, before the stage opened to a full dance performance.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Detectives did not indicate that there was any connection between the two incidents.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Our team actually went down a rabbit hole really just studying this category of books because there are a lot of folks that didn’t even really know that this genre existed or existed in such volume and that there was so much fandom around it.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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But then Diallo went down with a season-ending injury in the first game of the season.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Jan. 2026
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What appeared to be a gun was visible in the waistband of Pretti, who was carrying a handgun when his fatal encounter with Border Patrol agents occurred.—
Asra Q. Nomani , Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Growth in services consumption outpacing goods expenditure largely reflects rising average income levels and would likely have occurred even without policy support, said Duncan Wrigley, chief China economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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