Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for came on
Verb
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Trump arrived just before halftime of the game.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
10 Nov. 2025 -
Fort Worth officers were called to John Peter Smith Hospital regarding a shooting victim who’d arrived for treatment.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Nov. 2025
Verb
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People haven’t emerged from their houses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Soeren Stache | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Microsoft is giving employees a way to raise concerns about the uses of its technology after controversy emerged over the company's work in the Middle East.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
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Then too there was a whole other set of incentives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Hell there was even a cartoon about it.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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One of those neighbors was Lat Williams, who has lived full-time on the same stretch of beach as Morgan and Dodick for decades.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Billionaire Hushang Ansary has lived his life at the junction of money and power.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Now, industry eyerolling at the thought of listening faster has existed since the majority of audio storytelling moved from terrestrial radio—where there’s no skipping, scrubbing forward or backward, and certainly no way to speed things up—to podcasting.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Indie sleaze, the hallucination of a 2000s seedy-chic genre that never fully existed, is in vogue.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
6 Nov. 2025
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