COME INTO ONE'S OWN Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

come into one's own

phrase

Definition of come into one's own

as in succeed

to reach a desired level of accomplishment That intern has really come into her own over the past year.

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The baby didn’t make it, and neither did the wife, who died a year later, a victim of the horrendous pandemic that swept the planet clean.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
But for millions of people juggling demanding jobs, caring for children, recovering from injuries, managing chronic pain or simply trying to make it through another exhausting day, regular workouts aren't always realistic.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of make it

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These writers saw themselves as craftsmen and their field as closed to outsiders; at the Daily Mirror, the standard-bearing populist sheet, the crafty Lamb hadn’t been able to get ahead.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
The Seattle right-hander got ahead in the count 1-2, but Happ kept his hands tucked on a down-and-in splitter to blast it off the right-field foul pole for his 22nd home run of the season.

— CBS News, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of get ahead

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My interest came from learning folk songs, memorable stories passed down over the generations in an oral sense before the American music business cut it up and started handing out ownership of copyrights and publishing.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Cleveland cut it to 3-1 in the fifth when Rocchio doubled, went to third on Kwan’s groundout and scored on Bazzana’s sacrifice fly.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of cut it

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Plus, declining costs for each unit of AI compute, known as tokens, are calling into question the ability of proprietary AI labs, namely OpenAI and Anthropic, to make good on their massive financial obligations.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
Pozen counts calendar years, which is what the Damodaran file contains, and on that reckoning the losses of 2000–02 were more than made good by the close of 2006.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of make good

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