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Definition of "come into" [come into]
- Used other than as an idiom: See come and into. (verb)
- To inherit (money). (verb)
- To be a factor in. (verb)
- To enter the initial phase of; to commence. (verb)
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Use "come into" in a sentence
- "Indeed, environmental exposures to dioxin and PCBs—at amounts as low as five times the average level that most of us come into contact with in our day-to-day lives—can cause the thymus to shrink as much as 80 percent."
- "These antibodies, or proteins in the blood, remember the organism that caused the disease and can recognize and inactivate it when we come into contact with it again."
- "Millions of T cells are “educated” in your thymus to perform specific roles—such as, say, to recognize and eradicate an infiltrating influenza-A germ or food-borne bacteria like salmonella from your body, as well as hundreds of other antigens with which your body may come into contact."