COMES ON Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

comes on

verb

present tense third-person singular of come on

as in is

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There is a chance of late-day pop-up showers and storms, mainly south of Philadelphia and areas down the shore.

— Bill Kelly, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Remaining cargoes, such as those from the United States, are also more likely to head for Asia than Europe, say analysts, because demand there is particularly strong and buyers are stumping up more.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of is

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That seems rather unfair on those who operated well under their PSR limit, and a concession offered by the EFL arrives in the form of a transitional ‘allowable headroom injection’.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Much will depend on temperatures and the elevation of the snow level when each storm arrives.

— Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of arrives

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If no winner emerges then as well, this is likely to become the first lottery prize to cross $1 billion since December 2025.

— Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
The findings could provide a framework for studying how collective behavior emerges in different systems.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of emerges

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Spotify cast the move as streamlining a feature that already exists, the 15-second skip button, which users in practice often use to bypass ads.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Picturing an adorable robot, eagerly seeking to be of use, even designed to wag a mechanical tail, to riff off the idea, the proposal doesn’t sound that far-fetched, but rather a development of what already exists.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of exists

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Some have left the United States after decades of building lives here.

— Maria Santana, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
In a special Open Thoughts podcast held in Korea, where YoungBoy now lives, host Funny Marco (known for his deadpan approach) asked if there was ever a time during his early performances that the artist felt like pulling back.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of lives

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The story, which here begins in the 1960s and moves to the present, becomes an inter-racial love story rooted in the fraught second half of the 20th century, and lives and breathes as such.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
The measles spreads easily through the air when an infected person breathes, talks, coughs or sneezes.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of breathes

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