come of
Britishverb
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to be descended from
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to result from
nothing came of his experiments
Example Sentences
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But perhaps the best thing to come of the record was that Blake was able to “solve some riddles” that had haunted him for quite some time.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
"Nothing's come of it. It's kind of leaving this hopeless feeling, where you almost just think you're gonna check every day and never see anything," Long, the content creator, said.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
But Lubitsch envisioned, as no one else did, what might come of marrying sound films with a modified form of operetta.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
But he then told journalists, "I am not sure that anything new could come of it," and urged the United States to step up pressure on Russia to end the war.
From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025
No good can come of it, if you ask me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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