Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caught on
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On the morning of January 5, 2026, Lysonja went over to her father’s house to visit.—
Sarah Dahlberg,
NBC news,
3 June 2026 -
The ball hit his glove and went over the fence.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
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The moves worked out just fine for Yildiz, who’s responsible for three goals during the nation’s World Cup qualifying campaign.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
8 June 2026
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Pantochino Productions, the singularly silly, strange and hysterical small theater company that has worked out of the Milford Arts Council (MAC) for the past 16 years, occupies a unique place in the Connecticut theater landscape.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
8 June 2026
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But as the wheels came off late in Game 2, with Canady allowing a seventh-inning home run to Texas’s Kayden Henry, followed by all those fielding miscues, one wondered whether the burden of being the bad guys finally did them in.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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Also in the seventh, Kyle Karros came off the bench to whistle a leadoff homer to right off Ryan Borucki.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
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Guillaume Henry was creative director between 2009 and 2014, succeeded by co-creative directors Alexis Martial and Adrien Caillaudaud, who exited in 2016.—
Laure Guilbault,
Vogue,
8 June 2026
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In the history of the review requirement, county boards have never succeeded in studying every death.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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Before the Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte delivered the walk-off blow to the Dodgers — a towering home run off reliever Tanner Scott, punctuated by a bat flip — Roberts had to choose whether to send Shohei Ohtani to the plate as a pinch-hitter.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2026
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The 79th Cannes Film Festival has wrapped, amid familiar complaints about the lack of Hollywood blockbusters, fewer American stars and a competition lineup that delivered a string of beloved films but no immediate consensus masterpiece.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
4 June 2026
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“Caught on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caught%20on. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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