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come up with
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]Example Sentences
National Education Union general secretary Daniel Kebede said Ofsted needed to "come up with a system of accountability that reduced pressure on schools".
Brands, said Dr Wickramasinghe "will always come up with the argument why we shouldn't introduce these regulations."
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.
“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.’
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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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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