come to know

Example Sentences

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Leading up to that, he was one of the earliest entrepreneurs to plant his flag in the basic cable realm with the Atlanta-based “superstation” we’d eventually come to know as TBS.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

There's a lot of astro-jargon involved in space missions, and TLI is the latest space lingo many of those following this mission have come to know.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Although he loved his children, whose faces and personalities I’d come to know through his many photos and anecdotes, he’d decided long ago he was done.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

Our friend Nancy asked if she could bring her daughter Ana to see Linda, all of us having come to know each other as fellow church members.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

On the far side of the park were the Columbia University complex, Grant’s Tomb, and Riverside Church, all places I would come to know over the following years.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers