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result or issue
A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion -
originate or come into being
a question arose -
bring forth, usually something desirable
The committee came up with some interesting recommendations - come to the surface
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gather or bring together
muster the courage to do something
Summon all your courage
she rallied her intellect -
gather (money or other resources) together over time
they scratched a meager living
She had scraped together enough money for college -
come up, of celestial bodies
Jupiter ascends
The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...
The sun also rises -
get something or somebody for a specific purpose
I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener
I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing
The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter -
move upward
The mist uprose from the meadows
The fog lifted
The smoke arose from the forest fire -
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
come down here!
come out of the closet!
He came singing down the road
come into the room
Come with me to the Casbah -
start running, functioning, or operating
the lights went on
the computer came up -
be mentioned
These names came up in the discussion
How To Use come up In A Sentence
- While you're in Miami, make sure you stay up to see the sun come up … and try a drink called Miami Vice, which is a mix of daiquiri and pina colada. Insider's guide to music pilgrimages: Hip-hop, dance, disco, electro
- Ministers are attempting to come up with a compromise to avoid defeat on Wednesday. Times, Sunday Times
- Our marketing people have come up with a great idea for the launch of the new model.
- He'd come up with some charming excuse: he'd left his long filbert brush, he couldn't go on without it.
- What screwball idea would they come up with next?
- There were toast crumbs in the butter, so I’ve already come up with a dozen ways to kill you; the marmite is just another mitigating circumstance when it comes to trial. …things that niggle. « Sven’s guide to…
- The commission may come up with a new plan for overseeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which is accused of botching its end of the case. Peace, order and good government, eh?: December 2004 Archives
- People come up to me all of the time and as a conversation ice-breaker often say, ‘You're the food editor.’
- Mr. Lennon said appraisers can sit down and come up with an inherent commercial value for a patent "based on how much in damages a person could collect, analyzing profitability in the market of a product and how much is sold. Contenders to Line Up for Nortel Patents
- We worked really hard to come up with money by doing everything from sumo wrestling competitions to washing cars.
