eventuate
verb (used without object)
to have issue; result.
eventuated
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past participleof eventuate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof eventuate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
eventuateverb (used without object)to have issue; result.
Example Sentences
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“I don’t know that this has ever eventuated in the history of the music industry. You have a 50-year-old record that looks like it’s just being released.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021
In a BBC interview in 2013, Mr Johnson stressed that "nothing eventuated" from the conversation and that people often said "fantastical things" to close friends of theirs.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2020
He urged locals to heed evacuation warnings but said he was concerned people may take those warnings less seriously than they did last weekend, because the worst-case scenario had not yet eventuated.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
Worse eventuated during the couple’s final phase of exile in America.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2011
As we shall see, Aborigines in the climatically most favorable areas of Australia were evolving in a direction that might have eventuated in food production.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
