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  • present participle of become.
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becoming

[bih-kuhm-ing] / bɪˈkʌm ɪŋ /




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“Now ask yourself, would you want to marry you? I know nobody likes that question, but it’s a good question. So stop asking ‘where is he’ and start asking ‘who am I becoming?’

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The commission found that with government cuts forecast in the coming years, councils risked "becoming financially unsustainable".

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Even 2001’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” eventually reveals itself as a kind of inverted first-contact story, with humanity becoming the vanished civilization studied by synthetic descendants of the machines.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Under pressure to raise funding and meet targets for its public listing later this year, Altman has acknowledged that the rising cost of its AI product suite was becoming a “huge issue.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

By 1916, food and clothing were becoming scarce in both countries.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman




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