What does come forward mean?

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come for·ward

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore, come outverb

    make oneself visible; take action

    "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers"

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  1. come forwardverb

    to offer help or information (especially, about a crime)

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  1. come forward

    To come forward means to voluntarily step up or present oneself, often with information, evidence or to offer help. It usually implies taking a stand, confessing or revealing something significant that was previously unknown or unseen.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of come forward in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of come forward in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of come forward in a Sentence

  1. Minnijean Brown-Trickey:

    I've just been so sad about whether my life was worth anything because it doesn't seem like things have changed, and I'm sure a lot of people feel that way, i got pushed back to Emmett Till, and growing up in Jim Crow, and Central( High School) and being arrested as an environmentalist. Every aspect of my life has just come forward and it's just sorrow.

  2. Debra Katz:

    Christine Blasey Ford has not asked for anything of the sort. What she did was to come forward and testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee and agree to cooperate with any investigation by the FBI and that's what she sought to do here.

  3. Aly Raisman:

    You know what, someone brought this up the other day and they said he’s going to jail for almost like a year for each survivor, so when you put it in that perspective, it’s really not enough, it would be like for the abuse he did there’s been so many girls that have come forward. It’s like he got one year for each person, like that’s not enough, you know what I mean?

  4. Nimco Ali:

    I really wish young women and girls got the support to come forward (sooner).

  5. Mark Feinberg:

    You quickly recognize that you have a vaccine that can have such a major impact in preventing cervical cancer, and the greatest disease burden is concentrated in the world's poorest communities. You cannot with any conscience not come forward and make the vaccine affordable and create a sustainable vaccination program, the program in Rwanda had two purposes: to get the vaccine to a population who could benefit, but also to demonstrate what was possible. Rwanda is an incredible country in its commitment to national health. If it wasn't possible in Rwanda, we knew it wouldn't be possible anywhere else.


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