- present participle of become.
becoming
Example Sentences
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He served as deputy editor of Heard on the Street from 2019, becoming editor in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Canada and Egypt both won World Cup games for the first time, advancing to the Round of 16, with Egypt becoming one of nine African teams to make it to the knockout rounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Before entering politics, he worked as a journalist, briefly editing Parliament's in-house magazine The House, before becoming a disability rights campaigner and trade union official.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
That “suggests inference demand is now becoming the binding constraint,” Boloor told MarketWatch in emailed comments.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Or why it feels like I’m becoming someone else.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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