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verb (tr, adverb)

to cause to happento bring about a change in the law

to turn (a ship) around

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How to use bring about in a sentence

Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
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But news of the classes is spread mainly by word of mouth, and participants bring along their friends and families.
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If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
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The wives have been traveling for years across the globe to bring attention to the case.
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Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season liberally with salt.
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It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.
Children's Ways|James Sully
When he gets quite large the boy will get tired of having him for a pet, and perhaps bring him back.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
There is cause for alarm when they bring one hundred and ten ships into these seas without any means of resistance on our part.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock

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bring about

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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