comes back

verb

present tense third-person singular of come back
1
as in recovers
to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness she's slowly coming back after being in a coma

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2
as in rebounds
to regain a former or normal state the American bald eagle was once nearly extinct but has come back strong

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3
as in responds
to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction he came back with another one of his smart remarks

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Recent Examples of comes back For Christian, the challenge comes back to the pressure from investors to produce business results. — Barbara Booth, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026 And while everyone’s hair comes back differently and at varying speeds, there’s plenty that can be done to ease the process. — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 9 Oct. 2026 So our rotating planet has to turn a little farther each day before the moon comes back above the horizon. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2026 However in more melodramatic fashion than the film’s title suggests, that past comes back to haunt him in the form of a young man named Miguel Vasque, son of Jorrison’s father’s gardener Carlos (Santiago Cabrera). — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026 Yet there is always someone who comes back with an idea or output nobody else saw. — Ted Ladd, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 DeLand comes back again to tie the game at 35-35 early in Q4 on a 6-yard rushing touchdown by Kaveon Jackson. — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026 Find out what everyone else has been up to when season three comes back this January. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026 And if the Yankees avoid further injury before Judge comes back, utilityman Amed Rosario, a poor defender who hasn’t hit lefties like he’s supposed to, could become the odd man out. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comes back
  1. recovers
  2. rebounds
  3. responds
  4. snaps back
  5. rallies
  6. replies
  7. improves
  8. answers
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  • The $39 million settlement recovers about 57% of those losses, according to the settlement.
    — Chase Jordan October 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Lanning said the team would be cautious as Moore recovers from the head injury.
    — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
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  • Oil drops as Hormuz traffic rebounds Oil prices fell as new data showed crude exports from the Middle East surpassed prewar levels, though any respite may be short-lived as attacks on tankers traversing the Strait of Hormuz increased.
    — Mary Lawrence Ware, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • However, when strategies shift a brand from merely ranking to being directly cited inside generative answers, engagement rebounds dramatically, and incoming traffic carries vastly higher buyer intent that converts in far fewer touchpoints.
    — Vin Sonpal, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of rebounds
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  • The next step in capturing electrons in action The achievement could help researchers study how electrons behave in atoms and molecules, including how matter responds to intense X-ray illumination.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • An agent reads a ticket, retrieves a document, queries a database, calls a tool, maybe hands off to a second agent, and only then responds.
    — Osman Koc, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
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  • And when the creaky door opens to allow in the jury members, everyone snaps back in their seats.
    — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Release and the keyboard snaps back to the letters.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
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  • The student rallies, now stretching into their third week after violent clashes with police, mass school closures and thousands of arrests, are expected to resume on Thursday.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The exploitation of racial divides, the mass rallies, the storming of the Capitol, the blurring of truth and reality, the unabashed abuse of government power to the ends of ethnic cleansing, which becomes systemic, institutionalized, and accepted.
    — Daniel Peña, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of rallies
Verb
  • The automation should end when the customer replies, books, declines, becomes unqualified or needs a decision from a person.
    — Michael Fox, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The video then shows Duff taking off her earpiece and saying something to her bandmate, who replies with an unsure gesture.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
Definition of replies
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  • Philadelphia improves to 7-3-4 at home, while RSL falls to 1-10-3 on the road.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2026
  • By defining requirements upfront and approving change orders quickly, the model improves schedule certainty and ensures vessels are mission-ready when they are delivered.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
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  • When Waits sings about the woman’s raincoat and suitcase, Duke answers with a twinkling tumble of notes.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Director Maya Bannick Bedward’s first feature, the documentary Black Zombie (now available on VOD), answers that question with an elegant approach to the past.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026
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“Comes back.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comes%20back. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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