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
Multiple games came down to the wire in Week 6, and NFL fans hope for more exciting matchups in Week 7.
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Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
The game included seven triple stumpers and came down to Final Jeopardy!
—Usa Today Staff, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Fort Worth Southwest and Fort Worth Carter-Riverside came into Thursday night’s game at Scarborough-Handley Field looking to get their first win in district play for the season, and the matchup came down to a back-and-forth battle in the fourth quarter.
—Raul Avila, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025
The third spot came down to Parker and Texas Tech’s David Bailey, who currently leads the FBS in pressures (31).
—Dane Brugler, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
And the 2025 review of the evidence came down squarely behind the current guidelines, issued five years ago.
—Will Stone, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
That just kind of came down to a sort of a puzzley kind of thing.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
The final match-up in the single-elimination, bracket-style contest came down to Chunk (also known as Bear 32) and Bear 856.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
The 323-foot fly ball came down and hit the pole on the black line that delineates between a ball being out of the park or in play.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025
Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
The game included seven triple stumpers and came down to Final Jeopardy!
—Usa Today Staff, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Fort Worth Southwest and Fort Worth Carter-Riverside came into Thursday night’s game at Scarborough-Handley Field looking to get their first win in district play for the season, and the matchup came down to a back-and-forth battle in the fourth quarter.
—Raul Avila, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025
The third spot came down to Parker and Texas Tech’s David Bailey, who currently leads the FBS in pressures (31).
—Dane Brugler, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
And the 2025 review of the evidence came down squarely behind the current guidelines, issued five years ago.
—Will Stone, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
That just kind of came down to a sort of a puzzley kind of thing.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
The final match-up in the single-elimination, bracket-style contest came down to Chunk (also known as Bear 32) and Bear 856.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
The 323-foot fly ball came down and hit the pole on the black line that delineates between a ball being out of the park or in play.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for came down
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But when a famous author sneaks into town and a body is found in his penthouse apartment, cunning fox investigator Vera Vixen must piece together what happened.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
18 Oct. 2025
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Craft opened up about what happened on the agreement that the name of the zoo involved be omitted from the story.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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But one scholar, Anthony Grafton, who about thirty years ago published Forgers and Critics, focused on how in the early modern period, there was this enormous flourishing not only of culture but also of liars.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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There was a chill in the air, but for Liverpool’s midfielder, newly arrived from Spain, the real culture shock was what happened on the pitch.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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In 2022, the three reunited for the Back to the Beach podcast, in which Cavallari claimed that a lot of what went down between them — the fights, harsh words, and rivalry — was largely made up.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Oct. 2025
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The last two of the quartet that went down were LSU at Vanderbilt and Texas Tech at Arizona State.—
Eddie Timanus,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
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The arrest occurred during a break at a hearing regarding ex-wife Denise Richards' restraining order against him.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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However, a backstage attack occurred with a piece of equipment that was dropped on Fatu, resulting in his removal from the match due to a bloody injury.—
Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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