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came into being

came into being is the simple past of come into being.

Meaning of come into being

Verb

come into being (third-person singular simple present comes into being, present participle coming into being, simple past came into being, past participle come into being)

  1. (idiomatic) To form; to start to exist.
    • Sociologists would like to study how this phenomenon came into being.

Questions about came into being

What is came into being the simple past of?
Came into being is the simple past of come into being.

Words near came into being in the dictionary

  1. came in from the cold
  2. came in handy
  3. came in hot
  4. came in useful
  5. came into
  6. came into being
  7. came into force
  8. came into one's own
  9. came into play
  10. came into the world
  11. came it strong

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Adapted from Wiktionary: came into being (page history and authors); come into being (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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