come around

as in to come to
to gain consciousness again she came around surprisingly quickly after falling off the horse

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Recent Examples on the Web Rodney finished his career with 327 saves — 18th-most all-time (though just two more than active reliever Aroldis Chapman entering Sunday) — and voters are slowly coming around on inducting closer, with Wagner (73.8% of the vote in 2024) likely to get the call next year. Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024 Since his election as mayor of Chicago in April last year, Brandon Johnson has raised $2.6 million, nearly half of which has come from a variety of labor organizations — some of them key backers from his election campaign, others that came around afterward. A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2024 Another boost to the union came around the time when Microsoft conducted 1,900 layoffs at Activision Blizzard and Xbox in January. Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2024 When summer comes around each year, Tony Bennett's daughters Antonia and Johanna are flooded with childhood memories of time spent with their father on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 21 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for come around 

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“Come around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/come%20around. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.

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