bring about

British  

verb

1. to cause to happen

   to bring about a change in the law

2. to turn (a ship) around

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bring about Idioms  

1. Also, bring to pass. Make something happen, accomplish or result in something. For example, The revised tax code brought about considerable changes in accounting. The first term dates from the 1400s, and the variant, today considered rather formal, from the first half of the 1500s. Also see bring on, def. 1.

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bring about

He would press ahead with tax, welfare and economic reforms to bring about prosperity, he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

While everyone argues about whether AI will eventually bring about the apocalypse, hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent building the infrastructure underneath it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Despite the alarm bells, the view that AI could bring about our demise remains a fringe opinion among industry experts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Teng, who produced the 2019 Oscar-nominated documentary short “St. Louis Superman,” a portrait of a local Black activist, once again ponders how much any one person can do to bring about change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Even at that young age, I knew I couldn’t trust the legal system to bring about justice.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

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