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come across

verb as in encounter, find

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Shouhed then rushes back inside, where he comes across a federal agent who shoves him to the ground and steps over him while continuing to run outside.

It is something of a "superpower", he says, as when they come across a potential food they don't just dive in.

From BBC

With his Buzz Lightyear-like square jaw and clean cut appearance, he comes across as the archetypical heroic astronaut.

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“So, the automatic checks show compliance, but to viewers the ad still comes across as louder and more aggressive than the program,” she said.

Her life changed with a visit to Traquair House in the Scottish Borders, where she came across a figure of a horse made from scrap metal.

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

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