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come about

Verb

Meaning

come to pass

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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. Johan Huizinga

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives. Angela Merkel

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books. Agatha Christie

The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably. John Maynard Keynes

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief. Lewis H. Lapham

A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about. Cuban Proverb

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