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English word

become

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /bɪˈkʌm/US /bɪˈkʌm/
verb

to start to be something

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The Danger of a Single Story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TED video example

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Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be

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