came across
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In April, a mother spoke of her horror after her son came across a number of dead lambs while out litter picking near the village of Cappagh.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
A former cybersecurity expert, he came across videos of people intentionally frustrating scammers online a few years ago and immediately understood the appeal.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Last week, another walker came across a pile of dead marine life, believed to be catshark - also known as dogfish, at Saundersfoot, in Pembrokeshire.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
On the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands, a submersible controlled by scientists came across a mysterious octopus as blue as the ocean and no bigger than a golf ball.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
In 1630 Thomas Hobbes, who had received a conventional humanistic and scholastic education at Oxford, came across a copy of Euclid’s Elements ‘in a gentleman’s library’ in Geneva.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
