come into existence
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: to begin to exist : to come to have actual being
long before the country had come into existence
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Canary Island Industry Drivers Why a Canary Cinema has come into existence is another matter.
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John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
The symbol of the scarab beetle means to come into existence or to continue to exist, which would have been important for a pharaoh hoping for a smooth journey into the afterlife.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
So the Skynet that would have come into existence, if any, wouldn’t be the same as the Skynet that set the plan in motion.
—Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
Last year, as the force was beginning to come into existence, a Washington Post analysis found that violent crime on the school’s main campus had not increased between 2016 and 2019, the last full school year before the pandemic.
—Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
The United Nations, however, did not come into existence until Oct. 24, 1945, when the governments of China, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States and a majority of the other signatory states had ratified the charter, said the museum.
—Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 26 June 2023
There were a few depictions of lesbians in the media but definitely not of anyone my age, and social media had only just come into existence.
—Amelia Abraham, refinery29.com, 15 Dec. 2021
The academic research community is of course a huge part of how subsequent generations of robots come into existence.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2022
The Inspector General for the NYPD almost didn’t come into existence.
—Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2021
John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
The symbol of the scarab beetle means to come into existence or to continue to exist, which would have been important for a pharaoh hoping for a smooth journey into the afterlife.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
So the Skynet that would have come into existence, if any, wouldn’t be the same as the Skynet that set the plan in motion.
—Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
Last year, as the force was beginning to come into existence, a Washington Post analysis found that violent crime on the school’s main campus had not increased between 2016 and 2019, the last full school year before the pandemic.
—Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
The United Nations, however, did not come into existence until Oct. 24, 1945, when the governments of China, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States and a majority of the other signatory states had ratified the charter, said the museum.
—Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 26 June 2023
There were a few depictions of lesbians in the media but definitely not of anyone my age, and social media had only just come into existence.
—Amelia Abraham, refinery29.com, 15 Dec. 2021
The academic research community is of course a huge part of how subsequent generations of robots come into existence.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2022
The Inspector General for the NYPD almost didn’t come into existence.
—Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2021
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