Definition of "becomes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of become. (verb)
• The two-character symbol sequence ":=" used in some programming languages to mean is assigned the value of. Used to distinguish between assignment of value and comparison for equality. (verb)

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• "Your stance is homophobic becuase you fail to regard any of the possible discourse that could be happening over the opening poem and you choose, instead, to pose a “hypothetical” that you soon get so lost in that it becomes less and less hypothetical with each subsequent post of yours until, well, it *becomes* your stance."
• "Not so - in the extreme case that the government itself becomes an enemy of the country, time spent by the security services documenting their activities for the public *becomes* their core duty."
• "He says marketers latch on to anything that can be considered green so the term becomes meaningless."