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come up

verb as in happen suddenly

Weak match

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Wall Street may be the only place in America where strangers will come up to you out of the blue and try to hand you free money.

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"I had quite considerable pain down that area of my leg following it. Also I had slight bruising come up."

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"If they can come up with that balanced approach, which I think they can, then we will together with them handle the steel and aluminium issues," Lutnick said.

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He added that Dahl's inventiveness came up in his children's books and the Bond screenplay.

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A £1.5m report into the feasibility of Grangemouth becoming a low-carbon energy hub, known as Project Willow came up with nine ideas that could be developed with private sector investment.

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

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