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Idioms and Phrases

Produce, supply; also, discover. For example, Henry always comes up with the wrong answer , or We're hoping they come up with a cure in time to help Aunt Alice . [First half of 1900s]
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National Education Union general secretary Daniel Kebede said Ofsted needed to "come up with a system of accountability that reduced pressure on schools".

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Brands, said Dr Wickramasinghe "will always come up with the argument why we shouldn't introduce these regulations."

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Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to respect each other's sovereignty and come up with a draft peace deal by 2 May.

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“I found out later he didn’t do that with everybody. I think the kind of stuff I did — cars, and I could come up with stuff very quickly — was stuff he would like to have in his park. But he doesn’t give ‘atta-boys.’

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She says Simone was "so full of life, energetic, sporty, musical - there's 100 adjectives I could probably come up with".

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