Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
news came back
English answer:
reports were received in their country/place of origin
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Charles Davis
Dec 22, 2011 11:55
12 yrs ago
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synonym " news came back"
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hello, can you find a synonym? "There were plenty of Greeks in East Africa in those days, and news came back that they were all making money hand over fist"?
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Jan 5, 2012 08:51: Charles Davis Created KOG entry
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Charles Davis
Spain
Spain
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Spain
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reports were received in their country/place of origin
"News" means reports or information on what was happening to the Greeks in East Africa or what they were doing. "Came back" means that these reports reached the place from which the Greeks has gone to East Africa, which was presumably Greece, or some particular part of Greece. "Back" implies returning: the reports travelled in the reverse direction to that in which the Greeks had gone to East Africa.
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airmailrpl
: reports were received that
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Thanks, airmailrpl
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Ty Kendall
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Thanks, Ty, and Happy Christmas :)
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Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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Liz Dexter (was Broomfield)
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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English
Specializes in field
United Kingdom
Proofreading, editing & localisation
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, US, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand)
Works in: English
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it became known / x heard that
It became known would do - or if you're talking from the perspective of "they" or "we" left behind
"we heard that"
"they heard that"
"those left behind heard that"
"we heard that"
"they heard that"
"those left behind heard that"
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airmailrpl
: it became known
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Thank you!
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Tony M
: And you've made an important point there
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Thank you!
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Luiza Modesto
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
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English
Brazil
specializes in research articles
Native in: English 
, Portuguese
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese, English
and there was word that
Another option..
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airmailrpl
: -
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Happy holidays and 2012! Thanks. :)
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Tony M
: Depending on just why Asker is asking... if they simply don't understand the source expression, I think this is probably equally hard for a foreigner to understand.
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Very true. Happy holidays and 2012!
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airmailrpl
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
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English
Works in field
Brazil
Technical - Fast - good price - accurate
Native in: English (Variant: US) , Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, English, and 1 more.
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we were informed that
news came back that => we were informed that
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Luiza Modesto
: repaying your kindness ;)
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thank you kindly
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Tony M
: Fine, except we don't know if the writer is speaking in the 1st or 3rd person. / Yup, that too!
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and we don't know if they were reports or just verbal information
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