came out

verb

past tense of come out
1
as in proved
to come to be in the end everything came out OK

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2
as in appeared
to come into view come out, come out wherever you are!

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3
as in spread
to become known when the truth came out about the state of the company's finances, several top executives lost their jobs

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Recent Examples of came out Introduced in 2001, the shoe came out of Harajuku’s creative movement and quickly became a cultural touchstone. — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 Ever since his days as an architect of the southern-soul sound that came out of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the 1960s, the songwriter and legendary session musician has built his career on innately understanding what a song needs. — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026 Landan Nau of Warrensburg was in the Crown Center Shops around the time the renderings came out. — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026 One poster circulated a photo of Newell at campus orientation alongside a photo that came out during the aftermath of the lawsuit. — Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026 Donald, 35, came out of retirement to rejoin the Rams in late August. — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026 Obviously, these events took place 20 years ago and a documentary about these guys came out in 2013. — Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026 Whatever electronic gremlins the first models came out with have long been sorted. — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026 The crowd who came out to Tavistock’s ballroom meeting was quiet and polite, Winkelvoss acknowledged. — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for came out
  1. proved
  2. appeared
  3. spread
  4. fell out
  5. unfolded
  6. circulated
  7. evolved
  8. showed
Verb
  • Apple Vision Pro proved particularly useful for judging the scale of sets before physical construction.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, ceasefires have repeatedly proved fragile.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of proved
Verb
  • But Israeli commentators also professed shock, if not surprise, Sunday at how closely aligned the journalist and spin doctor appeared to be.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Huppert, who has appeared in three Hong films, was elected this year as the first female president of the Cinémathèque Française.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of appeared
Verb
  • That’s $280 billion from firms like Singapore’s Bitdeer, Australia’s Graphinex, Belgium’s UCB, South Korea’s Korea Zinc, and Japan’s Isuzu Motors, spread across more than 345 projects.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The company’s new Aura software measures hive health, pollen counts, and pesticide prevalence across its 2,200 hives spread around more than 70 cities.
    — Drew Robb, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of spread
Verb
  • Heintz fell out of her vehicle, and police said Royce Moser picked her up, put her in the hatch of her Jeep Cherokee and drove her to his mom's house in Beallsville.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Below, Bourne explains how and why Black in the British Frame fell out of print.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of fell out
Verb
  • In the narrative to has unfolded from authorities and passenger accounts, Machchhar had the presence of mind to open the locked door of the cockpit after he was stabbed.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • In the debut episode, Robach and Holmes detailed how the scandal unfolded and insisted they’d been quietly separated from their spouses before their love affair began.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of unfolded
Verb
  • One short clip that quickly circulated on social media showed Stamos urging Love to do some hand gestures from his seat, and the Beach Boys’ mainstay gamely complying, but without much apparent energy, before going back to sitting in place.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
  • That’s about $20 billion less than what was circulated to investors last month.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of circulated
Verb
  • Chen consulted Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige about how Hulk’s appearance had evolved across the franchise.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Sullivan has evolved into the stardom predicted for him since his days kicking the ball around with his brothers inside and outside of his northeast Philadelphia home.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of evolved
Verb
  • In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the French economist Thomas Piketty showed how wealth perpetuates across generations and widens the divide between those who own capital and everyone else.
    — Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Rookies step up The iM Securities report said that the profitability of newer bands such as Katseye and Cortis in Western markets will be likely key to reducing the company's reliance on BTS, the report showed.
    — Jenny Lee,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of showed

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