come into being

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come into being (third-person singular simple present comes into being, present participle coming into being, simple past came into being, past participle come into being)

  1. (idiomatic) To form; to start to exist.
    Synonyms: appear, form, materialize, take shape; see also Thesaurus:come into being
    Sociologists would like to study how this phenomenon came into being.

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