debuted

verb

past tense of debut
as in came

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Recent Examples of debuted Swag debuted with 163,000 units on over 198 million streams for Bieber’s strongest streaming debut of his career. — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debuted
  1. came
  2. arrived
  3. emerged
  4. issued
  5. dawned
  6. surfaced
  7. blossomed
  8. erupted
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  • That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
Definition of came
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  • The family is also adamant that they were told by the hospital that by the time Lopez-Cornejo arrived there on Saturday, his heart was no longer beating.
    — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • A lot of Eastern European Jewish refugees arrived in France after the pogroms and worked as tailors and seamstresses for the couture houses.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of arrived
Verb
  • In some areas, vast sandbanks have emerged, cargo shipping has been disrupted, tourism has suffered, and even electricity generation has been affected as river levels continue to fall.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Kenya has emerged as one of Africa’s largest carbon market destinations, attracting investments in clean cooking, renewable energy, mangrove restoration and forest conservation.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of emerged
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  • And in January 2026, the country issued its first golden passport.
    — Brittany Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni issued the most blunt criticism of Sánchez, as well as announcing that Italy would enforce air and sea border controls with Spain.
    — Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of issued
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  • Sunday dawned fairly clear and bright for the World Cup 2026 final, with temperatures dropping from last week’s oppressive, humid 90s to the drier upper 70s and low 80s with wildfire smoke all but washed away.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026
  • As October dawned, Clinton held a lead but not an overwhelming one.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026
Definition of dawned
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  • The next day, reports surfaced that the administration was considering a large-scale attack on Iran's energy infrastructure.
    — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Not long after the Strider update surfaced, Atlanta completed an unexpected four-player trade with the Kansas City Royals.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of surfaced
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  • By his third season at UC-Santa Barbara, the 6-foot-5 right hander blossomed into the best pitcher in the nation.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 29 July 2026
  • Cozens has blossomed into a high-end 2C with a fresh start in Ottawa.
    — Harman Dayal, New York Times, 28 July 2026
Definition of blossomed
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  • Earlier Monday, some residents returned to find their homes leveled by wildfires that erupted across a parched landscape over the weekend, covering yards in charred debris.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Sleep was beginning to finally visit the insomniacs and drunkards of T—in central Manila when a commotion louder than the usual domestic squabbles erupted from the room above Mang Calixto’s bakery.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of erupted

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