come about

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Chinese exports to 20 Japanese companies will require a certification process, Beijing announced, with details to come about what that process is.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

So many cartoons depict great ideas using light bulbs that we’ve forgotten many of the greatest ideas come about from long deliberation and careful winnowing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

Shiv Pabary, chair of the BDA's General Dental Practice Committee said "a dental crisis" had come about directly as a result of the contract put in place in 2006.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025

Switzerland's government, known as the Federal Council, told AFP the meeting had come about through "a private initiative".

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

For me, that started to come about in the fall of 1967, when I left Parkside Houses in the Bronx for college, or as someone’s grandmother once called it, “sleepaway school.”

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times