comes about

present tense third-person singular of come about

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of comes about Related The news comes about eight months after the Descendants star and Måneskin frontman announced their engagement on Instagram. — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2026 The incident comes about a year after a teenager died in rural Iowa, after he was shot by a fellow hunter who apparently mistook him for a squirrel. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 The decision comes about two months after the Marvel Studios show’s third season wrapped filming. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 21 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 The letter comes about a week after Sharpton addressed the notion that he might be sued and welcomed that possibility during the event at the National Association of Black Journalists’ conference. — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 The alarming milestone at Lake Powell, reached Saturday, comes about a week after the river’s other major reservoir, Lake Mead, also hit a historic low. — ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comes about
Verb
  • But Barra knows that the idea will make some consumers uneasy—and GM, more than most companies, knows exactly what happens when customers don’t feel safe.
    — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • What happens next is conveyed almost entirely through flashbacks to dinners that weren’t interesting enough to become full scenes.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Mathematicians strongly suspect that there is a genuinely knotty loop that also has a Jones polynomial 1.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
  • That is a hard thing to ask of organizations with famously small margins, if there is any margin worth mentioning.
    — John Mildenberger, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Part of the appeal comes down to the versatility of the blank slate, but an outsized amount of credit has to go to the community of hustlers in New York City.
    — Olivia Cigliano, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Part of the disconnect between fuel prices and airfares comes down to timing, House said.
    — Rio Yamat, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Appearing with a live band, Abrams offered an impassioned rendition of the track, which comes off her recent album, Daughter From Hell.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Nobody comes off well; if anything, the snooty German Jews almost seem more vicious than the right-wing plotters, who are presented as mercenary and power-hungry rather than ideological.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Comes about.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comes%20about. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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