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Mr Bloom and his co-founders hit upon a plan to use vast banks of these units to power a crypto-mining operation.

The retired psychologist — who specialized in gifted children — hit upon the idea of creating a musical about Follett’s life after a deep dive into her archives at Columbia University almost 15 years ago.

It was at the university that the two first hit upon the idea of studying smelly shoes.

I somehow doubt he would have hit upon the main explanations: that international politics are more complicated than New York real-estate deals—and that he’s been misjudging who Putin really is all along.

When Reubens first hit upon the childlike, toy-obsessed Pee-wee character at the Groundlings, Newman said, “He knew he had something he could draw on so easily, because he was a 10-year-old boy at heart.”