come on
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He turned to Anaheim, where city officials invited him to come on down and call his team whatever he wanted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
You should come on my show,’” she told the outlet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“They just come on vacation to spend,” said Panos Panis, manager at a company that does boat trips on the Greek island of Crete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
His competitive debut could come on 15 August when Trabzonspor open their Super Lig campaign away to Kasimpasa, before attention quickly turns to a Europa League play-off against either Hungary's Ferencvaros or Poland's Gornik Zabrze.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Aw, come on, lady. Have a heart. I ain’t ate in two days.”
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
But the usual come-on of the cult is that its members are special.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
"Many people, in good faith, misconstrue what I'm saying, and they think I'm trying to do a sort of come-on to the camera. And I really am not," she told food podcast Sporked.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
“An American in Paris”: “It’s jet-propelled New Year’s Eve and everyone in Paris will be there,” says Gene Kelly to Nina Foch — well, who could resist a come-on like that?
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
This advertising come-on makes you think you are getting a good deal, but you pay for the product and receive the rebate only after the purchase is complete.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
Nine out of ten come-on houses," said Baker, "and all exclusive.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
In the wide-open world of grifts and schemes, an overinflated basketball may not rank with identity theft, Facebook come-ons from a Nigerian prince or even a hurried game of three-card monte.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
The emergence of weird get-rich-quick come-ons such as cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, distracts from the fact that “the federal government is the most important financial partner for most Americans,” Ghilarducci says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
To preempt such a calamitous outcome, unorthodox come-ons are being trotted out.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021
Consulting firms brought their algorithms, and software kept meticulous track of teenagers’ interest in a school by measuring things like how quickly they respond to text-message come-ons.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2021
The jingle of ricksha bells blended with car horns, the come-ons of street peddlers, a woman’s laughter, music from a nearby bar.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
