come at

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Mazur and other small-business owners say the additional costs could hardly come at a worse time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The action was part of a broader movement by residents who say safety improvements often take too long or never come at all.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

For some clubs, the pause in domestic action has come at the right time as they look to regroup, but for others it halts some much-needed momentum.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Some economists expect that such a change in the statement could come at the Fed’s next meeting in late April.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

By July 1921, the justice of the peace had closed his inquiries, stating that Anna Brown’s death had come at “the hands of parties unknown”—the same finding as delivered in the Whitehorn inquest.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann