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coming to be

coming to be is the present participle and gerund of come to be.

Meaning of come to be

Verb

come to be (third-person singular simple present comes to be, present participle coming to be, simple past came to be, past participle come to be)

  1. To come about; to come into being
    • All naturally occurring dialects of any language have strong communicative value: That’s how they came to be.2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 23

Questions about coming to be

What is coming to be the present participle and gerund of?
Coming to be is the present participle and gerund of come to be.

Words near coming to be in the dictionary

  1. coming to a sticky end
  2. coming to a stop
  3. coming to an end
  4. coming to anchor
  5. coming to bat
  6. coming to be
  7. coming to bed
  8. coming to blows
  9. coming to fruition
  10. coming to grief
  11. coming to grips with

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