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come in for

verb as in be eligible for something

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He won the Democratic Party’s nomination in a Senate run two years later, only to come in for a drubbing against Republican Sen. Rand Paul.

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That’s where belief and perseverance come in for China’s house churchgoers.

The energy strategy oversight group, made up of officials from a number of departments, came in for criticism for failing to track the strategy's progress against its targets.

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“Sometimes we talk to workers who have been seasonal employees for multiple years and don’t get let on, and other people come in for the first time and are offered permanent employment.”

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This adoration necessitated objectification, and from the 1970s onward, Updike’s fiction came in for a good deal of feminist scorn.

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

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