come (to) 1 of 2

Definition of come (to)next

come to

2 of 2

verb (2)

as in to come around
to gain consciousness again after being in a coma for months, the patient quite unexpectedly came to

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Verb
  • By the end of the decade, Keen was regarded as the biggest name in Texas music, and his crowds in the Lone Star State frequently numbered in the tens of thousands.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Vee first garnered recognition as a cast member of Nick Cannon’s Wild ‘n Out and The Women of Wild ‘n Out, beginning to accrue a social following now numbering over 6 million.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Mitigation means sailing between Charybdis and Scylla – where one path, no mitigation, will hurt everyone and the other, aggressive mitigation, would require some to pay the tremendous costs to save everyone else.
    — Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The Senate is expected to vote on legislation this week meant to protect consumers from high electricity costs caused in part by the data center building boom.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Harris was driving a 2014 Buick Enclave south near Sandy Ridge Road when the vehicle crossed the center line and left the roadway, striking the guardrail, becoming airborne and overturning, the report says.
    — Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Shots also struck the wall of a nursery their small children were in.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Microsoft’s turnaround gains credibility Wall Street is coming around to our view that Microsoft has turned a corner.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Pattinson himself hoped Hansen would come around on the portrayal.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The initiative tackles one of the industry’s biggest hurdles — scaling lower-impact materials and manufacturing — by aggregating demand instead of relying on isolated, brand-by-brand efforts that have stymied progress.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
  • According to Metacritic, a website that aggregates reviews of movies and TV shows, 94 percent of the reviews of Severance were positive and none was negative.
    — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In comparison, LaBeouf has long been open about his tumultuous childhood and has said that his father was a recovering addict, and at times abusive.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Hawaii residents are still recovering from Hurricane Lala, which produced heavy rain and winds strong enough to sweep about 100 homes off their foundations on the Big Island.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But after seven wins in nine games, even some of Carrick’s more sceptical colleagues from playing days must be coming round to his candidacy by now.
    — Mark Critchley, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Smalls come round and large pizzas are sheet-pan-style.
    — Gail Ciampa, The Providence Journal, 5 Mar. 2026
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“Come (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/come%20%28to%29. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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