comes round

present tense third-person singular of come round
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as in comes to
to gain consciousness again the medic waved smelling salts under his nose until he came round

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Recent Examples of comes round But when opening night comes round, Duse realizes that her daughter will be in the audience. Damon Wise, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
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Verb
  • Putin was portrayed as an unsightly troll, who, by an act of magic—a spell cast by the puppet version of Boris Berezovsky, the magnate who helped engineer his rise to the Presidency—comes to appear beautiful and virtuous, the subject of great adulation and deference.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Counting The Life of Chuck, which premiered at festivals in 2024 but opened wide this June, four of King's stories will have hit the box office by the time 2025 comes to a close, three of which—Chuck, The Monkey, and this week's The Long Walk—were first-time adaptations.
    James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • March of Dimes, a nonprofit focused on infant and maternal health, agrees.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Planetary scientist Joshua Krissansen-Totton of the University of Washington, who wasn’t involved in the study, agrees.
    Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The list comes around the same time Forbes dropped its latest list of the best colleges in the United States, where many of the same schools were recognized.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, the noticeable dip comes around 1930.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • The site adds that the winner's identity (in this case, the beneficiary) is kept confidential under Ohio law, unless the winner consents to be identified in writing.
    Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Under Virginia law, the identity of a winner cannot be disclosed by the lottery if their prize is valued at $1 million or more, unless the person consents to that disclosure in writing.
    David Chiu, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025

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“Comes round.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comes%20round. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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