come across
[verb]
Synonyms: find, bump into (informal), chance upon, discover, encounter, meet, notice, stumble upon, unearth

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English Thesaurus: find, discover, locate, come across something, stumble on/across something, ...

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come across phrasal verb (see also come)

1. come across somebody/something to meet, find, or discover someone or something by chance:
I came across an old diary in her desk.
I’ve never come across anyone quite like her before.
We’ve come across a few problems that need resolving.

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In written English, people often use encounter when writing about problems or difficulties because this sounds more formal than come across:
The team of researchers had encountered similar problems before.

2. if an idea comes across well, it is easy for people to understand:
Your point really came across at the meeting.

3. if someone comes across in a particular way, they seem to have particular qualities Synonym : come over
come across as
He comes across as a very intelligent sensitive man.
She sometimes comes across as being rather arrogant.
I don’t think I came across very well (=seemed to have good qualities) in the interview.

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find to get or see something that you have been searching for:
Have you found your passport yet?
Police later found the car abandoned in a wood.
discover to find something that was hidden or that people did not know about before:
A second bomb has been discovered in south London.
locate formal to find the exact position of something:
The airline are still trying to locate my luggage.
Online maps make it easy to locate almost any place in the world.
come across something to find something unexpectedly when you are not looking for it:
I came across some old letters from my father in my drawer.
stumble on/across something to find something unexpectedly, especially something very important:
They may have stumbled across some vital evidence.
Completely by chance we had stumbled on the biggest hit of the year.
trace to find someone or something that has disappeared, especially by a careful process of collecting information:
She had given up all hope of tracing her missing daughter.
track somebody/something down to find someone or something that is difficult to find by searching in different places:
I’ve been trying to track down a book that’s out of print.
The police managed to track down the killer.
unearth to find something that has been hidden or lost for a long time, by digging or searching for it:
In 1796, a carved stone was unearthed near the burial mound.

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come across
come across (someone/something)
to happen to find someone or something.
I was looking through a magazine and came across an interesting article on American artists.

come across (as)
to appear to have a particular attitude or character.
Sometimes he seemed like a good old pal, but other times he came across as an angry and unpleasant man.

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come across something
come across (someone/something)
to happen to find someone or something.
I was looking through a magazine and came across an interesting article on American artists.

come across (as)
to appear to have a particular attitude or character.
Sometimes he seemed like a good old pal, but other times he came across as an angry and unpleasant man.

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come across
• come across (someone or something)
to find something or meet someone by chance
I came across an interesting story in the newspaper last week.

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come across something
• come across (someone or something)
to find something or meet someone by chance
I came across an interesting story in the newspaper last week.

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come across
v.
1. or run across To find or meet by chance.
He came across a dollar bill in the suit he was sending to the cleaner.
The other day I ran across a book that you might like.
I came across George at a party last week; it was the first time I had seen him in months.
Compare: COME ON³, RUN INTO(3b).
2. To give or do what is asked.
The robber told the woman to come across with her purse.
For hours the police questioned the man suspected of kidnapping the child, and finally he came across with the story.

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