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View definitions for come up

come up

verb as in happen suddenly

Weak match

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He scored 21 points in the third quarter after coming up with huge barrages last week in New Orleans and against Memphis.

It was the meticulous d’Hérelle who, along with his wife, came up with the term “bacteriophage.”

From Salon

“But we kept an open conversation. I learned a lot from her, like when they’re doing microphones, people would come up to her and grab her chair. It’s like, ‘That’s my body.

One person after another after another came up to me to complain about what appeared to be a glossy commercial filled with beautiful people, a beautiful mountain lion, beautiful houses, beautiful nature.

“Again and again I’ve come up against men who argue exactly what Oliver does here, using the very same talking points,” she said.

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

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