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 pets are not allowed in the inn, there is one room set aside with its own private entrance that is pet friendly, for a fee.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2026
Mediators have been trying to negotiate with Hamas for months on implementing the plan, but there is skepticism in the region that Hamas will hold up its end of the bargain.

— Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 31 July 2026

Definition of is

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These are small bumps along the stem where new growth emerges.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2026
Future studies will need to determine exactly which magnetic state emerges and whether it can be reliably controlled in real-world devices.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of emerges

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With some wary residents questioning whether Ebola even exists, and health workers in one of Congo’s most remote and volatile regions struggling to respond to the outbreak with few supplies, pregnant women have less care than ever.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s blanket authorization framework exists to encourage greater investment in utilities like AES at a time when such investment has never been more urgently needed.

— David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of exists

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That lawsuit names coho salmon, spotted owls, as well as a threatened seabird, the marbled murrelet, which lives largely out at sea but returns to old-growth coastal trees to nest, as species threatened by the change.

— Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
On the Eastern Plains near Manzanola, Alice Craig McDonald, 91, lives near the homestead her grandparents claimed after leaving Oklahoma by wagon in 1916 -- descendants of people born into slavery who came west looking for land of their own.

— Anna Alejo, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Definition of lives

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The most serious form, known as pneumonic tularemia, develops after someone breathes in infected dust or aerosols.

— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
In other words, what a baby breathes in the months after going home may be associated with respiratory health years later.

— Tim Nelin, The Conversation, 21 July 2026

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