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come down with



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Animals that catch it typically come down with a high temperature before developing blisters, usually around the mouth or feet.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

More than 3 years earlier, in the summer of 2020, Hayden had come down with COVID-19 while visiting family in Colorado.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2024

It can be worse for others, but even so, we have come to accept that occasionally we’re going to come down with the disease, and we move on.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2024

Stafford threw a dart over the middle but Nacua, who was double-covered, couldn’t come down with the catch.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2024

But whatever it was, no one wanted those tiles to come down with whatever was bulging them out.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt