Thesaurus results for CAME OVER

came over

verb

past tense of come over

as in visited

to make a brief visit come over sometime and I'll show you my garden

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Recent Examples of came over His efforts paid off, as Camila left her friends and came over to Matthew’s table. — Alicia Brunker, InStyle, 31 Oct. 2026 Later, another wave of immigrants from mainland China came over. — Christopher Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2026 Between sessions, one of MoMA’s media and performance curators, Martha Joseph, came over to introduce herself. — Nolan Kelly, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026 People came over to me afterward, a lot of different couples, people from Newark. — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026 Joe Cullen, the team's defensive line coach, came over to talk to him, putting his hand on Jones' shoulder, as coaches are wont to do. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 The strike came over a year after a ceasefire deal was reached between Israel and the Hamas militant group, a period during which Israel continued to launch deadly strikes on the enclave. — Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026 Their consecutive sacks came over two seasons; Jones went on his sack rampage from Week 5 through Week 16. — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026 The first glimpse of their strategy came over the weekend when Mendes’ producing partner Pippa Harris pulled back the curtain a bit. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Ferrando has visited Sacramento each year for the last decade.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
But with the desert in bloom, 15,000 tourists have visited over the last few weeks alone.

— John Bartlett, NPR, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of visited

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Cocoa prices have dropped in the last year, but relief is coming too late to help prices for this Halloween, said David Branch, sector manager at Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute.

— Aoife Walsh, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Buhler faced two other counts of unlawful possession of a firearm that were dropped in accordance with the plea deal.

— Harllie Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of dropped in

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Still, enrollment in Medicaid has dropped by about 5 million, or about 7%, since July 2025, when the bill was signed into law, according to KFF, a health policy research and news organization.

— Kevin Freking, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
The Strokes dropped by Saturday Night Live last night to perform songs from their latest album Reality Awaits alongside first-time host Druski.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of dropped by

Verb

The truest sign that Joseph had tripped the Rams up with Hufanga’s blitz came by looking at Rams right guard Kevin Dotson.

— Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
The discovery came by accident, said the study’s co-lead author Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz to NBC News.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of came by

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Wheaton North responded with a score, but then Wendell followed up with a 3-yard TD run and Konkey ran in the 2-point conversion to cut the deficit to 30-29.

— Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
As part of the redistricting shuffle, Wasserman Schultz ran in a different congressional district and easily won re-election.

— Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of ran in

Verb

But on November 29, 1777, a small group of Spanish settlers moved into the area to establish a civilian agricultural town, called El Pueblo de San Jose, to provide food for the missions and presidios.

— John Ramos, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Their calculations used a feature of the model called a universal scaling function, which describes how physical quantities with dimensions, such as length, change over cosmic time.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026

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