How to Use come into being in a Sentence
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Jose said this group did not come into being overnight.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
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And then, even with those odds against tomorrow, that world began to come into being.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
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Lim asked Weerasethakul and Swinton how the character of Jessica had come into being.
—The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
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The winter storms pounding California this month have often come into being thousands of miles to the west, in the moist air above the Pacific.
—Raymond Zhong, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
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Like many others before him, Trump saw that nations come into being at their borders.
—Kanishk Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
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Gods come into being like original life, from the edges of happy islands, in lagoons where the waters gain time, or from the great force with which the waves crash against rocks or beaches over hundreds of years.
—Alexander Kluge, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
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This is what happens when new technologies come into being.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2023
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The island will come into being some 50 miles out to sea from the Jutland Peninsula, but its precise location is yet to be determined.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2022
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My argument is that while any one of these futures is a real possibility, only one will come into being at a time.
—Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2011
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To come into being, COP26 negotiators will need to reach an agreement on rules to avoid the double-counting of credits and other sticking points outlined below.
—Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2021
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There is also magic in watching her fiction, short stories, poems and essays come into being.
—Bo Emerson, ajc, 28 Mar. 2022
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From conception to publication, books can take several years or more to come into being.
—Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
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Perhaps nature has also made some interesting additions to the brines beyond Earth, seasoning them with just enough elements so that a morsel of life can come into being.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2021
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Some of that was administrative — the change in the backpass law, for example, had to happen for pressing to come into being — and some of it was philosophical, as the thinking of Johan Cruyff leached down to Pep Guardiola, among others.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
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Only 4% of adults in France have been inoculated, leaving many people who want shots unable to get one, and thus ineligible for whatever pass might come into being.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
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To abolish the Electoral College would mean a substantial change in the American constitutional order, and such a thing requires broad consent — broad consent that does not exist and is unlikely to come into being any time soon.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020
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Krakauer feels that both assembly theory and constructor theory offer stimulating new ways to think about how complex objects come into being.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2023
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The conditions under which Berrada’s works come into being are more fluid, both literally and figuratively.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 24 July 2022
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How did a store that sells 15 kinds of dark chocolate and zero kinds of aluminum foil, a chain that proudly advertises popular items with limited availability, even come into being, never mind becoming wildly successful?
—Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
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How did this revolutionary asphalt modifier come into being?
—Kao Contributor, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
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