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
That just kind of came down to a sort of a puzzley kind of thing.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
The 2024 championship came down to the waning seconds of Game 5, and the New York Liberty outlasted the Minnesota Lynx in overtime.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 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
The game included nine triple stumpers and came down to Final Jeopardy!
—Usa Today Staff, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
And then last weekend against USF, Fitzgerald tracked down a wobbly pass from Byrum Brown, who was pressured by Akheem Mesidor, and came down with the ball in the second quarter.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
At some point, when Cabello came down the stage closer to the crowd, a crew member rushed to redo the back of Cabello’s corset.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Surinder Gupta came down with a high fever one winter night in 1974.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
The 2024 championship came down to the waning seconds of Game 5, and the New York Liberty outlasted the Minnesota Lynx in overtime.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 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
The game included nine triple stumpers and came down to Final Jeopardy!
—Usa Today Staff, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
And then last weekend against USF, Fitzgerald tracked down a wobbly pass from Byrum Brown, who was pressured by Akheem Mesidor, and came down with the ball in the second quarter.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
At some point, when Cabello came down the stage closer to the crowd, a crew member rushed to redo the back of Cabello’s corset.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Surinder Gupta came down with a high fever one winter night in 1974.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for came down
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What happened next, according to first responders, Jasper's aunt Amber Rosen, churchgoers, hospital officials and family members of those impacted, is a blur of violence and terror with the pop-pop-pop of an assault weapon and thick black smoke from fire hanging in the air.—
Georgea Kovanis,
Freep.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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The Canes have beaten Florida and Florida State in back-to-back years; that hasn’t happened since 2001-04.—
Manny Navarro,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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According to its website, there was a buzz about Dave’s from the start.—
Amanda Hancock,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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Even though there was a collection of quarterbacks to start games between the Bernie Kosar era and the 1996 relocation, this is where the quarterback wilderness count usually begins.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The batting average with runners in scoring position went down.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
30 Sep. 2025
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The Democratic plan which would have restored $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts passed into law this summer on top of a permanent extension of the Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, went down along party lines, 47-53.—
John Parkinson,
ABC News,
30 Sep. 2025
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The agents were reportedly performing a routine patrol in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago, when the alleged assault occurred.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Witnesses told police that the shooting occurred after two parties apparently disagreed about exchanging car insurance information following a minor accident.—
Amy McDaniel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Oct. 2025
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