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come up

verb as in happen suddenly

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And suddenly, we were able to come up with all these scenes for it.

We were on her roof talking and trying to come up with ideas, to think of alternatives to renting a studio.

Also, your nose is in front of your face and the sun will come up tomorrow.

The cops had come up short, unable to find the two men in a sea of several hundred thousand law-abiding people.

And – although we did not go to the Willard Hotel – the subject of lobbyists did come up.

An old Indian woman, the same whose house they had hired in Saboba, had come up to live with Ramona.

If he went to bed, and sent for a doctor, surely Allcraft would believe him; and in pity would come up and do the business.

And seeing this bunch is heading right toward us, we might as well take it easy here till they come up.

Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?

Seems as if K. was beginning to come up against those political forces which have ever been a British Commander's bane.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to come up, such as: arise, crop up, occur, rise, turn up, and spring up.

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

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