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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 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 transition comes about one year after Stern and Cohen pranked listeners by having Cohen take over the airwaves and imply that Stern was fired and that Howard 100, Stern’s main channel, was now his own. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 1 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 The latest flooding comes about a month after another round of flooding forced the bar to close for several days. — Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2026 Indeed, flow state research shows that our optimal performance only comes about under challenging conditions. — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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For business owners like Rios and Yepez, the concern is not only about immigration enforcement itself, but also about what happens when customers and workers become too afraid to leave their homes.

— Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Most of us start the washing machine without thinking much about what happens next.

— Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of happens

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There is no noise of a breaking string echoing in the distance — the stage direction that pushed Chekhov’s final dramatic landscape toward Beckettian absurdism before Beckett was born.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
There is a particular sort of helplessness that comes from knowing exactly how to fix a computer while being hundreds of miles away from it.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of is

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Yet with massive gaps in battery life, materials, and off-grid durability, choosing between them comes down to a few critical trade-offs.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
What Actually Separates The Two Groups The divide comes down to whether profitability was designed in or bolted on.

— Serhii Zakharov, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of comes down

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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
Not to mention, the formula is easy to move, lasts from 9 to 5, and comes off glowy rather than shiny.

— Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 31 Aug. 2026

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