come on
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The stock’s after-hours gains come on top of a 10% rally in Wednesday’s regular session.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
At Cycles Laurent, a bike store on Boulevard Voltaire, a makeshift wooden window doubles as a spray-painted sign urging people to come on in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
She is more concerned with getting her depressed brother to come on the impending trip to Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Ten Hag had dropped Ronaldo for a Premier League game at Chelsea in October 2022 after he had refused to come on as a substitute against Tottenham three days earlier.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Why don’t you come on down and keep your ol’ G’ma company?
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
One day, a sympathetic nurse hands her a flier with a very alluring come-on, “Generous Salary With Benefits.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Many people, in good faith, misconstrue what I'm saying, and they think I'm trying to do a sort of come-on to the camera. And I really am not," she told food podcast Sporked.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
When you use Facebook Messenger these days, a new prompt greets you with this come-on: “Ask Meta AI anything.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
“An American in Paris”: “It’s jet-propelled New Year’s Eve and everyone in Paris will be there,” says Gene Kelly to Nina Foch — well, who could resist a come-on like that?
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
I could believe that easy, because they is nothin' more vicious in the land of the free than a enraged come-on.
From Kid Scanlan by H. C. (Harry Charles) Witwer
In the wide-open world of grifts and schemes, an overinflated basketball may not rank with identity theft, Facebook come-ons from a Nigerian prince or even a hurried game of three-card monte.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
TV themes before 1990, when “Twin Peaks” premiered, tended to be come-ons or introductions.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
To preempt such a calamitous outcome, unorthodox come-ons are being trotted out.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021
Driven by acoustic guitar, its sound points the way ahead and there’s something appealingly odd, even sinister about the lyrical come-ons: “Wear the dress your mother wore.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2020
The jingle of ricksha bells blended with car horns, the come-ons of street peddlers, a woman’s laughter, music from a nearby bar.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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