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to take place
let's wait and see what comes down at the meeting
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Recent Examples of comes down
Cutting flowers from your garden comes down to cutting at precisely the right time of day for the best results.
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Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
Building the next Spotify Momentum – and the ability to constantly iterate – often comes down to bagging cash to scale.
—Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Two paths to scale The fundamental difference between DAC approaches comes down to the chemical agent used to capture CO2.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
This mostly comes down to how good Fland and Lee are.
—Cj Moore, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
The difference between a calm travel day and a stressful one often comes down to what's packed in my carry-on bag.
—Gabriela Garcia, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
There's an element of that that really comes down to partnering with our system partners to, again, incorporate those value elements into the physician compensation model so that those physicians can change their behaviors.
—Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
The Long Walk comes down to the two of them, and their final stretch is met by a crowd of fans and cameras broadcasting the climax all over the country.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
But, again, success comes down to execution.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
Building the next Spotify Momentum – and the ability to constantly iterate – often comes down to bagging cash to scale.
—Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Two paths to scale The fundamental difference between DAC approaches comes down to the chemical agent used to capture CO2.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
This mostly comes down to how good Fland and Lee are.
—Cj Moore, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
The difference between a calm travel day and a stressful one often comes down to what's packed in my carry-on bag.
—Gabriela Garcia, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
There's an element of that that really comes down to partnering with our system partners to, again, incorporate those value elements into the physician compensation model so that those physicians can change their behaviors.
—Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
The Long Walk comes down to the two of them, and their final stretch is met by a crowd of fans and cameras broadcasting the climax all over the country.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
But, again, success comes down to execution.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comes down
Verb
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What happens in-house should be protected, and none of that should have gotten out.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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And once that happens, the risks do not stay confined to one company.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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There isn’t a ton of video footage of him, but there’s this interview with Robert Ressler and some of that is in the Peacock documentary.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
18 Oct. 2025
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So, because of that, there is some gaging and figuring out to do.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
18 Oct. 2025
Verb
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If Max goes down because an update is buggy, servers break, or someone launches a cyberattack, the app could be offline for some period—in this case, potentially halting millions of bank payments, messages, and identity-verification attempts through the app.—
Justin Sherman,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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Then get ready to make new friends over a cheeky drink with conversations that will last long after the sun goes down.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Sep. 2025
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