hit upon
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Taking a cue from the festivities at Somerset House, he hit upon the idea of throwing a masked party to subsidize the theater.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
More than two millennia ago, not far from Pompeii, Roman builders hit upon a formula for concrete that allowed them to build bigger, stronger and more durable structures than ever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Donaldson says that the story’s brief but profound shock was something she hit upon early in the project’s genesis.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024
Kahneman and Tversky began studying decision making in 1974 and quickly hit upon the central insight that people react far more intensely to losses than to equivalent gains.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2024
But his plan to make use of the gull excited everyone and was seen as something that not even Blackberry could have hit upon.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
