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come in

Dictionary definition · come in

verb

  1. to come or go into"the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"
  2. be received"News came in of the massacre in Rwanda"
  3. come into fashion; become fashionable
  4. to insert between other elements"She interjected clever remarks"
  5. take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal"Jerry came in third in the Marathon"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).