come into being
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: to begin to exist : to come to be
The story of how the university came into being is quite fascinating.
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Unsurprisingly, given the multiple jostling interests, this was not expected to come into being until 2025.
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Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
That is unusually soon, cosmically speaking, for so massive a black hole to have come into being through stellar collapses and mergers.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Together the show and book direct our attention to the process and the teamwork by which these sensory environments come into being.
—Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
A lot had to happen for our Solar System to come into being.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
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Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
That is unusually soon, cosmically speaking, for so massive a black hole to have come into being through stellar collapses and mergers.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Together the show and book direct our attention to the process and the teamwork by which these sensory environments come into being.
—Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
A lot had to happen for our Solar System to come into being.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
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“Come into being.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20into%20being. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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