Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coming on
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There’s also no radiation emerging from it at all, either.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026 -
Amid social media’s reckoning, however, artificial intelligence chatbots are emerging as the next frontier in the fight to make technology safer for young people.—
Barbara Ortutay,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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The crash happened late Sunday night as an Air Canada regional jet arriving from Montreal and carrying 76 people struck an airport fire truck that had initially been cleared to cross the runway to respond to a separate incident aboard another plane.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
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People kept arriving from behind, and with nowhere for the front to go, density and compression climbed together toward a threshold that crowd safety researchers consider dangerous.—
Yook JiHun,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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Lee said existing employees will be moving out of the Electric Boat shipyard in nearby Groton.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
31 Mar. 2026
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The robot worked within existing workflows instead of relying on isolated test environments.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
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So to be able to play one character on one of the most popular shows in the world for 18 seasons, that’s the equivalent of living to be 105.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
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Like other living things, plants existed in sentient and even sensuous relation to one another.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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The new efforts in air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) systems promise to revolutionize how satellites operate—especially in extremely low Earth orbits.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Mar. 2026
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Urban also used a combination of fentanyl and Versed, which is known to cause patients to stop breathing and have low blood oxygen and requires careful monitoring, according to a 1990 study in the medical journal Anesthesiology.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Coming on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coming%20on. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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