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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  • Paul Peschisolido became Fulham’s first £1million signing, then Chris Coleman arrived for £2m — fees that had been unimaginable in the third tier.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Pre-orders opened June 25, the cover art and new logo arrived, and 60 screenshots went out with them.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of arrived
Verb
  • Has the two-time All-Star fully emerged from his season-long funk?
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Cunningham has emerged as one of the biggest stars in the WNBA over the last year, especially among conservatives.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of emerged
Verb
  • Jernigan recalled reprimands issued for this sort of lapse but knew of no arrests.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
  • Because Hostin had no criminal history and cooperated with officers, police said he was issued a summons for trespass and released.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of issued
Verb
  • 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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  • Those discussions often uncovered ambiguities in documentation or policy interpretation that would never have surfaced through technical testing alone.
    — Arpan Saxena, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Ice Plex, Escondido’s former single-sheet ice sports facility on North Tulip Street, has also come up since Escondido Ice plans surfaced.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026
Definition of surfaced
Verb
  • The lanky 26-year-old ascended the Astros’ pitching hierarchy as a starting pitcher but has blossomed into a swingman in Houston’s bullpen during his first full major-league season.
    — The Athletic MLB Staff, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • Jennifer Aniston continues to be Courteney Cox’s biggest cheerleader, over two decades after Rachel Green and Monica Geller’s on-screen Friends friendship blossomed into a real-life BFF dynamic.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 July 2026
Definition of blossomed
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  • The Sicilian volcano has erupted several times a year, and glassy peaks of over 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) have fascinated scientists for decades.
    — Refractor, Refractor, 27 July 2026
  • The biggest such controversy erupted in April when the president shared a post depicting himself as Jesus Christ, amid a very public feud with Pope Leo XIV.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of erupted

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“Debuted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debuted. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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