COMES ON Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

comes on

verb

present tense third-person singular of come on

as in is

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While Detroit currently has enough financial wiggle room to not worry about exceeding the luxury tax, there is the NBA repeater tax levied to teams that go over the luxury tax in at least three out of four seasons.

— Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Then there is the issue of keeping the system in a quantum state.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of is

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The modern American Dream is best described as a private bunker where the outside world arrives entirely in a cardboard box or a fiber-optic cable.

— John Mac Ghlionn, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026
Now, as van den Berg arrives for his first NFL regular season with Sunday’s Bears-Panthers opener in Charlotte, he is expected to play a sizable role as part of the Bears’ defensive line rotation.

— Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of arrives

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But the new work found that if the rewards change with time (even by a small amount), then a second stable point emerges from the model, allowing both cooperators and defectors to coexist.

— Chris Lee, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Whatever emerges from the gathering, BRICS is unlikely to become an anti-American or anti-Western power bloc anytime soon.

— Ian Bremmer, Time, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of emerges

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Now, compare that to the infrastructure that already exists in China thanks to its sophisticated supply chains and massive motorcycle production capacity.

— Bultaco, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2026
She’s played by Sofia Boutella in another one of the Schrader women roles who exists only as a prism to refract male anxieties, a foil to a man’s moral quandaries.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of exists

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Fostering gives cats a temporary home on the way to adoption, alleviating stress on shelters and, in some instances, saving cats’ lives.

— Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Jupiter Island, farther north in Martin County where golfer Tiger Woods lives, has another concentration of large ocean-to-Intracoastal estates.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of lives

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Moore breathes life into Mona, but manages to intertwine a sense of entitlement that nods to her former life as traditional housewife.

— Cortlyn Kelly, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2026
Measles spreads through the air when a sick person breathes, coughs or sneezes, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

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