come down on
Example Sentences
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"It's very rocky, and the fossils are in cliffs on the shore. Paleontologists hate excavating in cliffs, because the cliff could come down on you."
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
Few studies come down on the side of large-scale job destruction.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 5, 2025
Luria didn’t outright deny the existence of an AI bubble—but he didn’t come down on one side of the argument, either.
From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025
“Eventually, the heat is going to come down on this.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
He would come down on the side of the law, wherever that happened to fall.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
