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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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"He came upon these three airmen in flying gear," Kit says.

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The scale of the crisis was brought to the nation’s attention in March when a group of activist searchers came upon an abandoned ranch in the western state of Jalisco.

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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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