come about
— phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come
C2 to happen, or start to happen:
How did the problem come about in the first place?
More examples
- How did such a confused situation come about?
- She was late again, but I'm not sure how it came about this time.
- How did it come about that the police were involved?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Occurring and happening
- afoot
- assail
- asynchronous
- attendant
- be at work idiom
- become
- come
- come up
- concur
- event
- go ahead
- go down
- go together
- go with sth
- hand
- happen
- intervene
- materialize
- occur
- underway
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