came on

verb

past tense of come on
as in arrived

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for came on
  1. arrived
  2. emerged
  3. was
  4. lived
  5. existed
Verb
  • The driver of the Mercedes-Benz remained at the scene until authorities arrived.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Officers arrived in the area within minutes and spotted the truck heading west toward the ocean.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of arrived
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  • Newcastle’s summer wobbled when news emerged in late June that Guimaraes was fixed on Arsenal.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The honeypot sites of royal Rajasthan—spliced by the brown slopes of the Aravalli Range, the state emerged after Partition from a mosaic of 22 feudal kingdoms—are so many people’s taster to India.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of emerged
Verb
  • Sanft asked jurors if there was any evidence that Davis had ever called the shots before or after the shooting.
    — Jonathan Landrum Jr, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
  • On top of the moving-camera-foamy-dark-mouth challenge, there was the plaque challenge.
    — Jenny Bailly, Allure, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of was
Verb
  • Some are shorter-lived, such as hair loss, nausea and fatigue, but others can last long after treatment is over and even for life.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Poor Helen Hayes, grande dame of the stage, lived long enough to see her namesake theater meet the wrecking ball.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of lived
Verb
  • The club was live-action social media before social media existed.
    — Derek C. Blasberg, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
  • That year, Congress passed the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, which required the Fed chair to report to Congress twice a year – a formal and recurring channel of oversight that hadn’t existed before.
    — Paul Wachtel, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of existed
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“Came on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/came%20on. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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