come into
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to enter
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to inherit
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to become fulfilled
she really came into her own when she got divorced
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to receive what is due to one
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Inherit, acquire, as in She expected to come into a fortune when she turned twenty-one . [Early 1700s]
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Accede to power or office, as in He came into office in 1820 and served three terms . [Early 1800s]
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come into one's own . Get rightful possession of something; achieve rightful recognition. For example, The serial composers have finally come into their own . [Early 1900s]
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One important way of stopping Ebola from spreading is contact tracing - finding all those people who had come into contact with an infected person and putting them into isolation.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
And the company isn’t expecting the supply of its AI chips to come into balance with demand any time soon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
If those differences become great enough, the populations may eventually lose the ability to interbreed, even if they come into contact again.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
Chad only had to take his chemotherapy pills at home and come into the clinic once a month for a checkup.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
But the way she helped me—as no human, really, could have helped me—by breaking down the interspecies interlock and letting her mind come into my thinking...There was such care, such love.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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