- past tense form of become.
became
Example Sentences
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When he became mayor of Manchester in 2017, he inherited a rare Northern English urban success story, as the city boomed thanks in part to an infusion of petrostate dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Nonetheless, the Greens did very well in local elections in London in May, riding the crest of a political wave which began shortly after Polanski became the party's leader just over a year ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
For Kline, the name truly took off when it became the acronym AI, associated with the stratospheric growth of companies such as OpenAI.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Or you might have seared in your mind the image of the beaked masks that plague doctors wore in the 1600s, which, given the lack of treatments at the time, became closely associated with death.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
The picture of Gingersnipes’s Recollection became a little clearer.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
