CAME ON Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

came on

verb

past tense of come on

as in arrived

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Sheriff’s officials said deputies arrived about three minutes after the initial call and found the suspect on the ground being physically restrained by the home’s resident and the caller.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Police said the shooter fled before officers arrived and that investigators did not believe there were additional shooters.

— Richard Ramos, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of arrived

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The feud helped cost Republicans an incumbent who may have been tougher for Democrats to dislodge, and Tillis has emerged as an increasingly outspoken critic of the president.

— Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
The plan emerged from the House speaker’s desire to limit state spending and pad the state’s reserves.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of emerged

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This melding of ultra-modern fabrication and centuries-old craft compounds West’s broader vision for costuming Dune, creating futuristic objects that appear to have lived entire histories.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
Lees lived up the road from the Joyces and no one from either family ever passed by the other’s house without stopping in with news.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of lived

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But the Benton case revealed that the same toxic climate of harassment that existed under Madigan had persisted under Welch, with politics taking priority over compassion for victims.

— Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
Gossip has existed as a social practice for centuries, but the word itself took on a more negative connotation around the 16th century, when it became increasingly associated with women spreading rumors.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026

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