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come along phrasal verb ( EXIST )

phrasal verb

Definition

to start to exist
I gave up climbing when my first child came along.

(Definition of come along (EXIST) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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