as in to find
to come upon unexpectedly or by chance
the popular belief that Sir Isaac Newton hit upon his understanding of gravity at the sight of an apple falling from a tree
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The effort to find the right engine and tail rotor from the Black Hawk continues, the agency said.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC News,
7 Feb. 2025 -
After two and four months the researchers checked back in and found evidence of successful teeth growth in around 50% of the pigs.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
7 Feb. 2025
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Strange then skipped across the multiverse and even encountered other versions of himself in a movie pointedly titled Multiverse of Madness.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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Sofia encounters Ingrid, glowingly Germanic and glamorous, riding a horse along the wet sand.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2025
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His harping on this point could come across as doctrinaire.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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The siblings come across a dollar bill of unfamiliar denomination frozen in a patch of ice.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Hit (upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hit%20%28upon%29. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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