come around

as in to come to
to gain consciousness again she came around surprisingly quickly after falling off the horse

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Recent Examples of come around Another 1979 may not come around again for years but, even with out the dramatic population boom, ruffed grouse hunting over a wide area in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington is often as good as anyone could desire. Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025 Austin said she's come around to people, but still has an impulse to run away. Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025 But the time the film festival came around in March, there was one of those massive trans scapegoating news articles that happened around the same time. Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025 Each one seemed to come around really quickly, and each one unfolded differently. Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for come around

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“Come around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/come%20around. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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