came along

verb

past tense of come along
as in progressed
to move forward along a course our backyard makeover is coming along nicely

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Recent Examples of came along Gabriel Luke Beauregard Jagger Mick and Hall’s fourth child, Gabriel Luke Beauregard Jagger, came along on December 9, 1997. — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 26 Sep. 2026 Fifteen minutes later a heavy buck came along the same trail the spike had walked. — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2026 When punk finally came along, the movie talks about how Townshend, who totally dug the punk scene, tried to cozy up to Johnny Rotten and got nowhere. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026 The headlining move came along the front seven, as Washington signed pass rusher Charles Omenihu to bolster the edge rotation and brought in former Michigan safety Sonny Styles via the draft to inject athletic versatility into the secondary. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 New and improved versions came along, but by the 1950s, the drawbacks of the ticker tape were becoming more apparent. — Brian Lund, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026 Then, for the next 136 years, no other pitcher even got close to having a week like that … until Bryce Miller came along, to become the first pitcher since GVH to lose back-to-back starts by 17-plus. — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 People remember a year by who headlined, which friend came along, or how old their kid was when a particular song started playing. — Svetlana Khachiyan, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 But then came along Jeannette Armstrong, Tomson Highway, and Thomas King. — Tommy Orange, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for came along
  1. progressed
  2. did
  3. proceeded
  4. marched
  5. came
  6. went along
  7. went
  8. got along
Verb
  • The technology has progressed to full-scale demonstrations at Kairos Power’s Oak Ridge campus in Tennessee, where the company’s Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor is under construction.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Gifting or transferring shares after a sale or offering has progressed too far leaves room for the Internal Revenue Service to challenge the valuation.
    — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of progressed
Verb
  • Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, nor did HUD officials.
    — Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Wisconsin Republicans did the same last year, and similar efforts have been raised in other states.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
Definition of did
Verb
  • In 2012, Brand took Australian journalist Liz Hayes’ head into his hands during an interview and proceeded to kiss her face and place his hands on her body.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • After cleaning the pizza slicer, an employee proceeded to return it to the pizza cutting table without sanitizing.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of proceeded
Verb
  • After Little’s kick, the Texans quickly marched into Jacksonville territory.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Hundreds of thousands of people marched through various cities and protested peacefully but others set fire to the city hall in Limoges, gutting the 19th-century building.
    — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of marched
Verb
  • That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
Definition of came
Verb
  • The question of child exploitation had been raised occasionally as the series went along, but that apparently did not trigger a closer look.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • California settled the lawsuit last month, and the other states involved went along with the compromise.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of went along
Verb
  • The Indiana Hoosiers haven’t lost a game since 2024, and the team went 11-2.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Sykes went 7-of-12 from the field, including two 3-pointers, off the bench.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of went
Verb
  • Whether that announcement is marriage- or pickleball-related remains to be seen, but not everyone coming back together got along in the Big Brother house, so how does Chen Moonves feel about Jason De Puy and Kamu Kirk being reunited?
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Happily, Yarberry got along well with Doris and her husband, Jon Worrell.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of got along

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