came along
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Metal recyclers harvested what they could, but until Paladin came along the rare-earth metals that some of them contained were going to waste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
“Retirement just came along and became this monolithic concept,” Samuel said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
And even ‘The Four Seasons,’ when that came along, I had been going back to back with dramatic roles — ‘Sing Sing,’ ‘The Color Purple,’ ‘Rustin.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
It was dead before he came along, according to his standard stump speech.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
“The problem,” as one AIG FP trader put it, “is that something else came along that we thought was the same thing as what we’d been doing.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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