CAME BACK Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

came back

verb

past tense of come back

as in recovered

to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness she's slowly coming back after being in a coma

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as in bounced (back)

to regain a former or normal state the American bald eagle was once nearly extinct but has come back strong

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as in responded

to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction he came back with another one of his smart remarks

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Recent Examples of came back Pakistan came back strongly in the middle overs through spinner Arafat Minhas (2-25) and Abrar Ahmed (1-29). — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 Skubal came back inside with a fastball that Baldwin fouled off. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 Authorities were preparing to make an arrest, Smallwood said, when the prosecutor’s office came back with bad news. — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026 The other 51%, how they were made to feel, was the part people came back for. — Jamie Farmer, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 SpaceX has deployed sets of Starlink V3 test payloads on previous Starship launches, but due to their suborbital trajectory, all of them quickly came back down to Earth. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2026 Kevin Kane came back to Purdue to fix one of the nation’s worst defenses. — Michael Marot, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026 About eight months after the last surgery, when Robby was just 10, the seizures came back. — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026 Murray was down for a time but eventually walked into the team's locker room for a concussion examination which came back positive. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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Zeno would collect victims’ funds and later withdraw them in cash, which has not been recovered.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026
His body was recovered early Wednesday morning using a helicopter from Yosemite National Park and crew from Friends of Yosemite Search and Rescue.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of recovered

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Moore's head snapped back and hit the turf hard, and his teammates immediately went after Stephens in a prolonged exchange.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
In those cases, 211 stayed at the price after the initial movement, 62 continued moving and 80 snapped back to their original position.

— Garrett Downs, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026

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But the Vikings responded with 10-play, 42 yard drive that was capped by a 41-yard field goal from Will Reichard.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
Beijing has responded by curbing exports of critical minerals to Japanese companies and urged citizens to refrain from traveling to Japan.

— Anniek Bao,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of responded

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Although the food situation has improved since last year’s famine, Israel continues to restrict humanitarian aid, allowing only a fraction of the daily 600 truckloads required in the cease-fire deal to enter the territory.

— KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
OpenAI also did not include full prompts or run-time details for how their agents uncovered the proofs, and officials admitted in a blog post about the results that citations and written descriptions of findings could be improved in future releases.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of improved

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But for meantime, Aldabra Atoll offers a rare story of hope, showing a landscape where nature rebounded from near collapse and giant tortoises reclaimed their habitat.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has largely rebounded, but only at great risk to tankers, 20 of which have been struck in the last month, suggesting recovery could be unsustainable.

— Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of rebounded

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Police and protesters clashed in Brussels on Friday as tens of thousands of people rallied separately in the Belgian capital against rising living costs and budget-tightening measures introduced by the government.

— Mark Carlson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
After Sam Antonacci was hit by a pitch, the White Sox rallied to tie the game at 3-3.

— Chantz Martin OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026

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