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

“Our job is to retake the narrative, to retell the story from Dr. Ridley-Thomas’ vantage point and to make the world see the many ways in which the government took laws that never should have applied to these facts and contorted them to come up with a theory of prosecution that is the first of its kind.”

From Los Angeles Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, has come up with an interesting way to defend President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz, who has been accused of sex trafficking and having a relationship with a 17-year-old girl.

From Salon

Surprisingly, the clever solutions that engineers and physicists come up with in the lab, turn out to be out there in living nature.

From Science Daily

So far the programme has come up with 15 new varieties.

From BBC

Other organisations have come up with similar figures.

From BBC

Related Words

• discover
• find
• invent
• offer
• present
• produce
• propose
• provide
• recommend
• submit