come into being

idiom

: to begin to exist : to come to be
The story of how the university came into being is quite fascinating.

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Recent Examples on the Web Unsurprisingly, given the multiple jostling interests, this was not expected to come into being until 2025. 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 See all Example Sentences for come into being 

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“Come into being.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20into%20being. Accessed 22 Sep. 2024.

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