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coming across

verb as in encounter, find

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His goal of coming across as humble subtracts from his ability to share just exactly how he became so great at such a young age.

How does one support gender equality without coming across as disingenuous or, even worse, as pandering?

She thinks of it as starting in Africa and coming across the Atlantic to attack America.

The children escaping the gangs and coming across the border from Central America will keep coming, Magdaleno said.

“Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic,” Ebert tweeted.

I passed through the Rue d'Antin without even coming across a commissionaire.

And that doesnt come—it just doesnt seem to come, he said nervously, his hands twisting, and a blank look coming across his eyes.

And he is right, for, as the sky flashes rosy red, we see you afar off coming across the fields.

Besides, we should have no chance whatever of coming across a peasant.

I saw the Master, staff in hand, going up toward the mountains, and Fides was coming across the hills.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to come across, such as: bump into, discover, notice, stumble upon, uncover, and unearth.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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