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The Islamist militant group came into being in the late 1980s with the aim of destroying Israel.

Trump’s Truth Social came into being as another of his schemes, and that’s how it’s proceeding.

The cables came into being in the late 1800s, after celebrated geologist Josiah Whitney proclaimed the 8,800-foot summit of Half Dome “perfectly inaccessible” and declared it would “never be trodden by human foot.”

Our own solar system came into being about 4.6 billion years ago -- more than 9 billion years after the Big Bang.

It came into being in 1895, long before the internet and decades before commercial airplane travel.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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