became
Example Sentences
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Before the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival became a world-famous event, it started as a much more modest music festival in Southern California’s desert in 1999.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Soon, it became impossible to ignore Uzbekistan’s outsize presence on the international stage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
The Nigel and Willy Twiston-Davies-trained Beauport will carry the colours of Bryan and Philippa Burrough, whose Corbiere won in 1983 as Jenny Pitman became the first female trainer to triumph.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
Before she became an educator at UT–Arlington, she spent decades as a forensic analyst working high-profile cases such as the Branch Davidian siege in Waco.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
Those who wrote and thought about American life became more and more concerned about the interest in Spiritualism.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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