come upon
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Synonyms for come upon
find unexpectedly
take possession of
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Finding themselves among the 1,500 unlucky passengers and crew who went into the icy waters, Jack and Rose come upon a floating piece of furniture large enough to provide a raft for only one of them.
I'm drawn back to pictures of the Market Street installation, for example [in Venice, California, in 1980], and to what it might have been like just to come upon it.
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- come in
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- come in handy
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- comeback
- comedian
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- Comer Vann Woodward
- comestible
- comet
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- comeupance
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- comfit
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- come up to someone
- come up to something
- come up to standards
- come up to their expecations
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- come up/out of something smelling of roses
- come up/rise through the ranks
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- come upon the town
- Come Volevasi Dimostrare
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- Come with Me
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