CAME ON Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

came on

verb

past tense of come on

as in arrived

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The family is also adamant that they were told by the hospital that by the time Lopez-Cornejo arrived there on Saturday, his heart was no longer beating.

— Armando Garcia, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
A lot of Eastern European Jewish refugees arrived in France after the pogroms and worked as tailors and seamstresses for the couture houses.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of arrived

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In some areas, vast sandbanks have emerged, cargo shipping has been disrupted, tourism has suffered, and even electricity generation has been affected as river levels continue to fall.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
Kenya has emerged as one of Africa’s largest carbon market destinations, attracting investments in clean cooking, renewable energy, mangrove restoration and forest conservation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026

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There was a small bathroom with glass doors and a shower, a mini-bar, closet, desk, lounge chair and large doors that open onto the street.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
Two Plössl eyepieces provided different magnifications, and there was also a red-dot finderscope and a manual equatorial mount with slow-motion cables.

— Damian Peach, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026

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Fans of old Hollywood should request room 203, where actor Stan Laurel once lived, and order the cocktail the hotel named after him.

— Carrie Bell, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The destruction of Solomon's Temple ushered in the Second Temple period, the era of Judaism in which Jesus lived and practiced.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of lived

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The thing is, the very same people so outraged over a logo change had likely forgotten Cracker Barrel existed.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
Some of these sharks may have been alive when Galileo was still studying the night sky while other individuals may have already been swimming through Arctic waters before the United States even existed.

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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