DEBUTED Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

debuted

verb

past tense of debut

as in came

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Recent Examples of debuted Swag debuted with 163,000 units on over 198 million streams for Bieber’s strongest streaming debut of his career. — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025

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That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.

— Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.

— Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025

Definition of came

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After the man arrived in Nairobi, his relatives took him in a private vehicle to Nairobi Hospital, where he was immediately isolated.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
Longstanding staff have stayed and new ones, courtesy of Mandarin Oriental, have arrived.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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Reactor, which emerged from stealth in May, develops software to make world models run faster and cheaper, and sells a cloud service that manages the computing capacity.

— Wen Shao, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2026
When Mohamed Salah terminated his contract with Liverpool a year early, MLS and the Saudi Pro League emerged as potential destinations for the Egyptian star.

— Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of emerged

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Soyka Soyka wanted to open a neighborhood hangout in his Morningside neighborhood as the new millennium dawned in 2000.

— Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026
When the age of book promotion scams dawned, an AI engine clearly had read the book but did not know that Orwell had died in 1950.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of dawned

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Two men were killed and nearly three dozen people injured when gunfire erupted at a homecoming weekend block party in Vienna, a small town in south Georgia.

— Mike Stewart, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
His nose bled frequently, and his whole body regularly erupted into sudden, violent bouts of chills.

— Trisha Thadani Kirsten Potter Tanya Pérez Devin Murphy, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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