Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coming on
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As silicon scaling slows and energy costs climb, multiple alternative computing paradigms are emerging in parallel.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026 -
Although there has been some animal and human research on artificial food dyes, funding for more is insufficient, and there’s even less for the study of emerging alternatives, experts told CNN in May — so whether natural dyes could have any effect on human health isn’t clear.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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The pageantry, the performances, the slightly chaotic energy of that many athletes walking in behind their flags, all of them arriving at the same place after wildly different journeys.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
5 Feb. 2026
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The fire department evacuated the home and put out the blaze within 12 minutes of arriving to the scene, Hall said.—
Kendrick Calfee
February 5,
Kansas City Star,
5 Feb. 2026
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The film makes clear that the organization is exclusively the province of white, Anglo-Saxon men, and possible initiates are only tapped when the small, fixed group of existing members die.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Feb. 2026
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The district also addressed requests by the neighborhood association to save three existing oak trees on the east side of the property.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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The goal is not to recreate the human brain, but to explore whether living neurons can perform useful computation more efficiently than conventional hardware, particularly for tasks related to learning, adaptation, and pattern recognition.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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An Alabama man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for raping a 95-year-old woman living with Alzheimer’s disease.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
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The judges tasted and inspected each one, breathing in the aromas and examining the laminate on the exteriors, while attendees watched from behind the glass-panel walls in Rebel Bread’s new bakery.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
6 Feb. 2026
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Taken together, these factors can lead to children wheezing and experiencing difficulty breathing, leaving them with bluish colored skin from a lack of oxygen.—
Michael Cromer,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2026
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