became

After more than 20 years living undocumented in the U.S., the Mexico-born activist became a naturalized citizen last May.

They became creative partners when Cooper’s mother hired Burke to direct a video for her son’s bar mitzvah.

Statistics for human cases have remained unchanged since the start of the year, when an elderly resident of Louisiana became the first human to die of H5N1 bird flu in the United States.

I was always someone who joked about, who went in the dressing room speaking with whoever, but it became different.

A song by the folksinger Donovan, recorded midway through the decade, became more accurate and powerful with each passing year: “The War Drags On.”