Thesaurus results for COMES ABOUT

comes about

verb

present tense third-person singular of come about

as in happens

to take place how did all this come about?

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Recent Examples of comes about The move to change county data center zoning rules comes about five months after the plan commission gave no recommendation for a data center in Eagle Creek Township near Lowell. — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 That’s partly because of the contingencies of how a book review comes about. — Lola Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026 Notably, the new action comes about a month after UMG had sued DistroKid in September, claiming the company has helped empower bad actors to upload AI slop songs at mass scale, diluting the royalty pool for genuine artists. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026 The new study comes about six months after the emperor penguin was declared an endangered species. — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 The star’s post comes about a month after fans first noticed that Jimin had seemingly made a solo account on TikTok, separate from BTS’ profile — which, at press time, has more than 80 million followers. — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026 The news comes about five months after Wiseman and Glover were part of a four-person crew that rode a NASA spacecraft on a 10-day journey toward the moon. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026 The story comes about a year after a New Orleans couple made a similarly mysterious discovery in their backyard. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Aidan’s birth comes about a year after Olivera and Heavy went public with their relationship in 2025. — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026

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But what happens when the season shifts, when the cloying good cheer of—groan—the holiday season comes with its candy stripes and jingle bells and partridges in pear trees?

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
Instead, energy production happens at the cellular level exactly where it’s needed, which is part of the reason why the body is so energy efficient.

— Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of happens

Verb

Jean Dorneval, a former Haiti defense minister, said while there is public enthusiasm and support among Haitians for Bukele’s troops, the government needs to provide answers.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
Georgy Tikhomirov, a nuclear physicist at Russia’s MEPhI university, said there is still too little operating experience to assess the actual cost of the electricity and power produced.

— Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of is

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In my experience, the difference between successful AI adoption and disappointing results rarely comes down to the model or tool.

— Joel Burleson-Davis, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
The reason Barnes can testify about its own history, Young explains, comes down to the temperature at its base.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of comes down

Verb

So, from a standpoint of how these events likely evolve, there could be small rocks and gravel and stuff that comes off where the slide is, as that rock mass adjusts to the fact that this piece just popped off.

— Erika Stanish, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Remember that when the cast first comes off, the nose is still swollen and far from its final result.

— Carlos Wolf, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026

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