came along
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Many cancers like melanoma were once also considered “terminal,” as doctors used to say, until breakthrough treatments came along and they weren’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Until large language models came along, AI could not help with decisions like whether to buy Nvidia or SpaceX, since those require thinking through uncertainty and imagining future scenarios.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
“The man I loved fell out of love with me,” she tells Kevin one evening, adding “whenever the chance to be loved came along again I ran away from it. I stopped trusting people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
It was dead before he came along, according to his standard stump speech.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
By time I came along, most everybody in Banks County thought General Tweedy had been a high monkity-monk in the Army of the Confederacy instead of just in the home guard.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
