come down on
Example Sentences
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Pressed by parents to act, school superintendents have come down on opposing sides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
"It's very rocky, and the fossils are in cliffs on the shore. Paleontologists hate excavating in cliffs, because the cliff could come down on you."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
Few studies come down on the side of large-scale job destruction.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 5, 2025
Luria didn’t outright deny the existence of an AI bubble—but he didn’t come down on one side of the argument, either.
From Barron's ● Dec. 4, 2025
“You want to come down on the field?” asked Horace Clarke, which we didn’t need to answer, because we were already climbing over the railing.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
