How to Use come to light in a Sentence

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  • But new reporting on how the outage happened in the first place has come to light.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Since the cheating has come to light, the cast has mostly sided with Madix against Sandoval and Leviss.
    The Cheating Scandoval, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2023
  • There is nothing that can come to light, because there's no darkness in my life.
    Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
  • New details of the slayings that shook the quiet suburb have come to light with Lu's arrest.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • As evacuees return to their homes and businesses, the full extent of the flood damage will come to light in the coming days.
    Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Only when their code was deployed and exercised by a lot of users did its hidden flaws come to light.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2022
  • And more information about her life right now has come to light thanks to further court filings.
    Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 23 Jan. 2023
  • As secrets come to light, the stage is set for a real-life investigation that feels plucked from the pages of one of Greer’s novels.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Final judgment should be suspended until all the facts come to light.
    The Editors, National Review, 19 Jan. 2023
  • While more plans for the DCU will come to light as the films start to roll out, along with the announcement of further projects, there’s a lot to be excited about as this new universe takes shape.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Could something finally come to light to solve this tragic mystery?
    USA Today, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But that has come to light as being an outdated policy.
    Cyndy Trivella, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Thus, the trial left some — including Hollywood’s late night hosts — eager to see what else might come to light during the trial.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Prosecutors argue Alex shot his wife and son in June 2021 when his financial crimes began to come to light.
    Fox News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • One of the upsides, though, is that so much of Twitter's internal dirty laundry has come to light—like the fact that the company pays $13 million per year on employee lunches.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 18 Nov. 2022
  • However, that may change as more wrongful convictions come to light in Massachusetts and across the United States.
    Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The system error affecting Navy retirees is the latest administrative oversight to come to light in the last few weeks.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 15 May 2023
  • Although the news has just come to light, associates of the president and the Justice Department sat on the information for over two months, according to the timeline.
    Steff Thomas, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The content of the chats expose several of them in their intimacy, with foul language and other unsavory phrases come to light.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Many deaths only come to light when survivors recount that their vessel set out with more passengers than the number who ultimately made it to safety.
    Frances D'emilio, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Instead, parishioners and anyone else in the community grieving in the aftermath of the shooting were invited to come to light a candle and reflect in silence.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But in one of those probes – in the hush-money case in New York – there are new indications that criminal charges might be imminent, according to new information that’s come to light this week.
    Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The Powell incident has come to light at a time when the Fed is under intense scrutiny over its interest rate hikes, which are intended to cool the economy and slow inflation.
    Christopher Rugaber, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Since these revelations have come to light, Favre has shirked responsibility for his role in what may be the deepest case of public corruption his home state has ever seen.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The problem is that sometimes significant security issues come to light and need to be addressed immediately rather than in a few weeks or months.
    David Nield, Popular Science, 24 May 2023
  • In the aftermath of Ana’s disappearance, a police incident report from 2014 filed in Washington D.C. has come to light regarding the couple’s past.
    Anisha Kohli, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • As truths come to light and trust shifts, Fritzi and Otto uncover a far more horrifying plot at the center of the hexenjäger attacks… but their own growing feelings for each other may be the most powerful magic of all.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2023
  • When 57-year-old billionaire Leo Lang’at dies suddenly, his secrets come to light, pitting one family against another.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The information that has come to light made clear that any relationship with the band was absolutely unacceptable to us and inconsistent with our values.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Musk, who has said combatting child exploitation on Twitter is his number one priority, has gone on the record as saying he was photobombed in the picture—the only such photograph portraying the two to come to light.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 May 2023

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