come aboard
Example Sentences
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While the virus is believed to have come aboard there, its precise origin - and the identity of those carrying it - remains unclear.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Training classes with up to 40 people are almost always in session as new employees come aboard.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
It was awkward to come aboard during that time, especially when I’d run into former employees in press boxes.
From Slate • Dec. 3, 2023
They even got one of the fiercest players in the history of the NFL, Green Bay Packers middle linebacker Ray Nitschke, to come aboard and play one of the guards.
From Washington Times • Jun. 5, 2023
These insects were a nuisance, but not dangerous—until they bit a person who’d come aboard with the virus.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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