come into being

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come into being

verb comes into being · coming into being · came into being · come into being

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

    Similar: appear, form, materialize, take shape, arise, be born, become, rise, come into being, emerge, engender, get up

Opposite: cease, dematerialize, unexist, vanish

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verb

Opposite: cease, dematerialize, unexist, vanish

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verb start to exist

中文形成 xíngchéng, 產生 /产生 chǎnshēng, 誕生 /诞生 dànshēng, 面世 miànshì
Portuguêssurgir
Françaisapparaître
Deutschentstehen
Русскийвозника́ть voznikátʹ, возни́кнуть vozníknutʹ

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@misc{come_into_being_2026,
  title = {come into being},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/come%20into%20being},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}