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Synonyms for come about
come about
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Princeton's WordNet
happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take placeverb
come to pass
"What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
Synonyms:
materialise, run, perish, elapse, go past, make pass, progress, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, continue, occur, pass off, slip by, materialize, breathe, excrete, turn over, go, spend, bechance, slide by, croak, emit, fade, hand, legislate, happen, egest, exit, authorise, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, transcend, make it, return, pop off, come out, authorize, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, give, fall out, hap, march on, glide by, go on, chance, sink, eliminate, move on, lapse, come up, give-up the ghost, blow over, take place, lead, expire, overhaul, find, advance, go through, reach, communicate, keep, choke, pass by, snuff it, overtake, bump, follow, extend, come on, carry on, die, fall, pass, proceed, encounter, clear, decease, conk, travel by, buy the farm, pass along, come, befall, go across, go along, surpass, guide, pass on
Dictionary of English Synonymes
come about
Synonyms:
happen, come to pass
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#100 | find | |
#104 | top | |
#123 | go | |
#342 | guide | |
#357 | return | |
#504 | come | |
#555 | give | |
#644 | hand | |
#656 | keep | |
#672 | run | |
#907 | clear | |
#1056 | continue | |
#1164 | follow | |
#1176 | lead | |
#1232 | fall | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1728 | progress | |
#1763 | die | |
#1837 | advance | |
#1885 | chance | |
#2254 | reach | |
#2877 | happen | |
#2919 | spend | |
#3110 | occur | |
#3227 | exit | |
#3350 | draw | |
#4532 | extend | |
#5041 | exceed | |
#5076 | communicate | |
#5628 | proceed | |
#5808 | eliminate | |
#6013 | fleet | |
#7229 | sink | |
#7693 | encounter | |
#10588 | bump | |
#10918 | authorize | |
#11701 | breathe | |
#12336 | fade | |
#12853 | expire | |
#18970 | transcend | |
#19455 | overhaul | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#21204 | choke | |
#22983 | emit | |
#25403 | hap | |
#27826 | perish | |
#30953 | surpass | |
#38869 | authorise | |
#39579 | overtake | |
#44527 | legislate | |
#48079 | materialize | |
#67651 | befall | |
#72536 | elapse | |
#73790 | croak | |
#83252 | devolve | |
#88666 | materialise | |
#92888 | decease | |
#110634 | excrete | |
#164683 | overstep | |
#166458 | conk |
How to use come about in a sentence?
I lament how this hearing has come about.
It's always under consideration, changes in other cities have come about because of either a private lawsuit or action by the Department of Justice.
I am often asked by the media and others, 'How did it come about that Donald Trump, the most unpopular presidential candidate in the modern history of our country, won the election?' my answer is that Trump didn't win the election -- the Democratic Party lost the election.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:
I hope the change in the position of our Western colleagues, which has unfortunately only come about as the result of terrible acts of terror, will spread to other Western partners. That the stance that the real battle with Islamic State can only be resolved once the fate of Assad is clear, that this position will put to one side, in my opinion there can now be no doubts that it is simply unacceptable to put forward any preconditions in order to unite in the battle against so-called Islamic State terrorists.
The mechanism by which these blood clotting abnormalities come about, and why they affect this very small proportion of individuals, has still not been properly worked out.
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