to come around
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2.7
- phrasal verb
- /kʌm əˈraʊnd/
- The flu vaccine season seems to come around quicker and quicker every year.
- the season comes around
- come around again
- the time comes around
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Watch on YouTubeHere's what I hate when the tray come around and it's communion.
- Here's what I hate when the tray come around and it's communion.
- And the third test came around and she passed.
- And the second test came around, got to make a turn here.
- You know, As Saturday came around, I was nervous but also very excited.
- And then Thursday comes around, I felt a lot better.
- Stock market crashes like this don't come around that often.
- But when one comes around, please cultivate that relationship.
- But that things a lost and come around again.
- First, this proverb, what goes around, comes around.
- They kept those in a fridge until DNA came around.
- And that's kind of how it was mostly until TikTok came around.
- But that full circle came around and I was attacked and had the same people.
- Nope, the special kind of video does not come around every day.
- Hopefully that will come around and they will be safe soon.
Examples
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And then Thursday comes around, I felt a lot better.
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Until the weekend comes around.
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And the third test came around and she passed.
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So once better things came around, I was out of there.
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You know, As Saturday came around, I was nervous but also very excited.
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Another chance will come around, the way winter always gives in to spring.
Fiction book (2000) -
Things will always come around again if you give them time.
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So by the time, February comes around, I'm a free man.
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Stock market crashes like this don't come around that often.
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The flu vaccine season seems to come around quicker and quicker every year.
Synonyms
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1.0
Happen or become known after some time
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5.7
Happen again, often after some time
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3.2
To come again at the usual time, for example each year
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3.8
Happen again after some time
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to occur again as part of a regular cycle' is directly derivable from combining 'come' (arrive) with 'around' (in a circular/recurrent sense), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer 'arrive/happen again'. Although 'come around' has other senses (e.g., change opinion, regain consciousness), the cyclical 'happen again' reading follows a transparent compositional pattern found in many languages.
Etymology
Come around uses the words come and around like a clock or the seasons moving in a circle and returning. That's why it means 'to happen again' on a regular cycle.