comes up

Example Sentences

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"Unless somebody comes up with a better idea, at the minute anything's better than that."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

“This issue comes up every single time charter reform comes up,” Feldstein Soto said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

She comes up with a superior punch line, one worth delivering to an audience.

From Salon • May 29, 2026

“We haven’t seen cases where it comes up with new attack techniques,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Take that diversity away—force all finches to have the same beak—and selection comes up empty-handed.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee