become
Example Sentences
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He began as a Royal Academician, became an ardent revolutionary, barely escaped execution after the fall of Robespierre, went on to be Napoleon’s chief propagandist, and ended life a political exile.
“First Amendment protection that rises and falls depending on how upset students become at a professor’s message is little protection at all,” Judge Bress writes.
After that it became an event, not a gathering.
Business management has fallen out of media and popular favor as entrepreneurs became the glory boys of American capitalism.
But since the end of the Civil War, its economy has languished, becoming a synonym for stagnation and backwardness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
