CAME AROUND Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

came around

verb

past tense of come around

as in came to

to gain consciousness again she came around surprisingly quickly after falling off the horse

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Recent Examples of came around Milwaukee opened the scoring in the third when Frelick reached on an infield single, stole second and came around on a single by Mitchell, an Orange County native and UCLA product. — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 On a candlelit Wednesday evening in Chinatown, the 2026 Image Makers came around an open-air table to celebrate each other. — Ashley Sp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026 When the cherry red color trend came around a few years ago, my closet was made up of blacks, whites, and grays. — Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 25 Sep. 2026 One particularly big shift came around 2000, when about 280 colleges and universities allowed applicants to apply without submitting scores for the SAT or the ACT, another common standardized test. — Beth Kania-Gosche, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026 Officers were searching the floor when the shooter came around a corner and ambushed them from just feet away. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 Alcaraz was sitting on his courtside chair when the camera came around on his right. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Potapova appeared to be tearing up as Andreeva came around the net for a long embrace after the final point. — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026 While the new idea of Stratt singing karaoke at a party threw her at first, Hüller came around. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2026

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came to

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Someone who came to watch a movie starts to understand how one might be made.

— Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
Here’s a guy who scraped his dollars together, came to the club, and out of all the people there, he gets pulled on stage by Ol’ Dirty Bastard.

— Christine Imarenezor, VIBE.com, 13 Oct. 2026

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