CAME ON Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

came on

verb

past tense of come on

as in arrived

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Pawloski said Amazon seemed to invest fewer resources into improving MTurk at the same time as more data labeling services arrived, causing many turkers to shift to competing platforms.

— Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
London — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived back in the United Kingdom on Wednesday, according to multiple British media outlets.

— Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026

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And outside of the capital, reports of diesel and gas shortages in Mazandaran province and Fars province have emerged on social media.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
Burch, who wasn't known for being particularly close with her neighbors before, emerged as vocal leader—and a lightning rod for deal proponents.

— Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026

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If more bucks lived to be 7 ½ years old like the one Mitch tagged in 1998, the county would certainly produce more record-book bucks.

— Richard P. Smith, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026
At times, his psychological explanations may seem almost too orderly for a woman who lived so exuberantly in disorder.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026

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The club was live-action social media before social media existed.

— Derek C. Blasberg, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
That year, Congress passed the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, which required the Fed chair to report to Congress twice a year – a formal and recurring channel of oversight that hadn’t existed before.

— Paul Wachtel, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026

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