become

Example Sentences

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“In the last twenty-four hours, my phone has become next to useless as I’ve received so many incoming messages and calls. It’s crazy,” he told MarketWatch in an interview.

From MarketWatch

Economists think the U.S. economy has become more “K-shaped” since the summer, with rich households doing the bulk of the consumer spending while lower-income workers have struggled to make ends meet.

From MarketWatch

The musician, who would become synonymous with Key West, started leasing the old icehouse in the city’s historic seaport district in 1986.

From The Wall Street Journal

And for the next four years, between caring for her mother, who died in 2016, and the birth of her grandchildren, family became her focus.

From Los Angeles Times

For one thing, notes UC Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman, an advocate of wealth taxes generally, “it has become impossible to avoid the tax by leaving the state.”

From Los Angeles Times