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comes on

present tense third-person singular of come on

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for comes on
Verb
  • There is a road closure at West 135th Street and US-69 South.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Once there is a final design, the city will be able to seek grants and other funding for the project.
    Amir Mahmoud, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • No one knows what the future has in store, but Swinney seems likely to be back at Clemson when the 2026 college football season arrives.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Vanderbilt's film arrives at theaters as the latest in a long line of films made about the trials of Nazi war crimes.
    NPR, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Mamdani’s vision of an equitable, affordable urbanity emerges as a challenge to this long history of abandonment and exclusion.
    Fahad Zuberi, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Also effective is the picture that gradually emerges of the two parents at the center of this whole thing.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • That stereotype still exists today.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In theory, this track exists in perpetuity.
    Raj Dhiman, Sourcing Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In Brazil, nearly 90% of electricity now comes from clean energy sources, enabling communities from São Paulo to small towns in the Amazon to power their daily lives with renewables.
    Alexis Abramson, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Pop culture is filled with images of Rio de Janeiro, and while the Cidade Maravilhosa (Marvelous City) certainly lives up to its name, movies and song lyrics rarely capture the real reasons why.
    Aaron Randolph, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein breathes new life to Mary Shelley’s classic gothic novel.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Otaleg Otaleg's Marco Radicioni lives and breathes gelato.
    Nina Ruggiero, Travel + Leisure, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Comes on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comes%20on. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.

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