come up
verb
came up; come up; coming up; comes up
1
2
: to come near : make an approach
came up and introduced himself
3
: to rise in rank or status
an officer who came up from the ranks
4
a
: to come to attention or consideration
the question never came up
b
: to occur in the course of time
any problem that may come up
5
: to turn out to be
the coin came up tails
6
chiefly dialectal
: grow up
Examples of come up in a Sentence
the girl came up to the counter and asked if she could have her order prepared to go
let me know if anything else comes up during the project
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My test for that, actually, is: could [an AI] have come up with general relativity with the same amount of information that Einstein had in the 1900s?
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Billy Perrigo, Time, 27 Apr. 2025
But the next time his turn in the order came up, manager Rocco Baldelli sent pinch hitter Mickey Gasper up in Keaschall's place.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025
The topic came up repeatedly during Isaacman's nomination hearing, which the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held on April 9.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Most recently seen in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, Price has an impressive slate coming up with turns in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, Maude Apatow’s Poetic License, Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor the Great, and Tim Robinson’s new HBO series, The Chair Company.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025
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Billy Perrigo, Time, 27 Apr. 2025
But the next time his turn in the order came up, manager Rocco Baldelli sent pinch hitter Mickey Gasper up in Keaschall's place.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025
The topic came up repeatedly during Isaacman's nomination hearing, which the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held on April 9.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Most recently seen in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, Price has an impressive slate coming up with turns in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, Maude Apatow’s Poetic License, Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor the Great, and Tim Robinson’s new HBO series, The Chair Company.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for come up
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“Come up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/come%20up. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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