Synonym: fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place. Similar words: care about, inquire about, about, get about, go about, know about, set about, just about. Meaning: v. come to pass.
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1. How did the accident come about?
2. I don't know how this confusion has come about.
3. How did this dangerous state of affairs come about?
4. How did it come about?
5. I've come about my book.
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6. How did this state of affairs come about?
7. Is it OK with you if I come about six?
8. How did the problem come about in the first place?
9. How did it come about that he knew where we were?
10. Any border changes will come about only by negotiation.
11. Instead it will come about through natural selection.
12. And they come about through inheritance, acquisition or invention.
13. How did this bizarre situation come about?
14. The interest in primitive art had come about largely, of course, through the work of Gauguin.
15. She guessed they'd come about twenty yards inland; she could still hear the sigh and fall of the incoming tide.
16. A union will only come about by 1997 if a substantial majority of Community members agree it should.
17. A number of educational reforms have come about as a result of the report.
18. These changes all come about gradually and are prerequisites to the development of the schemata permitting conservation.
19. How does it come about that different substances are found in different parts of the body?
20. Any possible solution to the Irish question can only come about through dialogue.
21. On the other hand, a reduction in costs can come about through elimination of waste.
22. It is logically possible that any degree of perfection may come about.
23. Some one has been murdered in mysterious circumstances: how has it come about?
24. In the event the anticipated collapse of the first genetic engineering company amid a pile of bad debts did not come about.
25. Britain should therefore not hesitate to use whatever powers and diplomatic skills she possesses to ensure that it does not come about.
26. It hides from the inferiors the sources of domination and the process by which this has come about.
27. As far as can be made out, systems of fingerspelling have always come about by hearing invention.
28. The flushing models have thrown a curve to geophysicists trying to work out how this cycle has come about.
29. And is it not highly unlikely that there should be a rule which ensures that what we desire will come about?
30. How did they allow this sorry state of affairs to come about?
More similar words: care about, inquire about, about, get about, go about, know about, set about, just about, abound in, forget about, bring about, come at, complain about, by no means, come across, at home and abroad, come home, be able to, have a ball, agreeable, changeable, mean, rub out, unchangeable, bounce, labor, boundary, the same as, meantime, by any means.