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come upon

verb

  1. intr, preposition to meet or encounter unexpectedly

    I came upon an old friend in the street today

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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see come across , def. 1; come on , def. 3.
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Fulton recalled that Shoup used to joke that he came upon parking as his life’s work because it was “the bottom of the barrel.”

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In her travels through fire-ravaged neighborhoods in Malibu and Pacific Palisades, she carried food for stray animals but came upon a number pets that didn’t make it.

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I had gotten into toys, making my own self into toys with other companies in the past, and I’ve, I’ve been trying to evolve that and eventually we came upon these Funko Pops.

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"It's hard to believe that another Christmas has come upon us and the genocide has not stopped," Isaac said in his strongly worded sermon.

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So she drove until she came upon Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital.

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