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View synonyms for come across

come across

verb

  1. preposition to meet or find by accident
  2. adverb (of a person or his or her words) to communicate the intended meaning or impression
  3. often foll by with to provide what is expected
“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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Example Sentences

His hero, Bruce Springsteen, is a gazillionaire, but he still manages to come across as a regular guy, so perception is reality.

I finally come across the only thing open tonight at the Taj: a deli called GO, the sort of place you might find in Penn Station.

Now when you Google “Bill Cosby,” you also come across Hannibal Buress, Barbara Bowman, Joan Tarshis, and maybe others.

It is the most perfect piece of military writing on the subject of ‘why’ that I have ever come across.

Among this information, you may come across scary-sounding stories about pro-anorexia sites.

A very interesting way of studying Ferns is that of collecting the fronds of the species which the hunter may come across.

She meets a sympathetic soul, and you come across her pouring into his ear the love and despair of a lifetime.

I shudder when I chance to come across a really well-read and enlightened man!

They had invited him to come across to their quarters, but he had explained that he was awaiting mademoiselle.

In all my experience I have come across less than a dozen men whom I should imagine to rank among the shady division.

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