CAME UP Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

came up

verb

past tense of come up

as in came

to come near or nearer the girl came up to the counter and asked if she could have her order prepared to go

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as in surfaced

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly let me know if anything else comes up during the project

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Recent Examples of came up In the preseason finale on Friday night, the Dallas Cowboys came up just short after a fourth-quarter rally and fell to the New Orleans Saints 27-24. — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2026 Trainers put his leg in an air cast, and players from both teams came up to the rookie before he was carted off the field. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 The Kansas City Chiefs went on the road and came up short against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 16-15 on Saturday night in their second preseason game of the year. — Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2026 Van der Vorn was at a coffee shop in Miami when a young woman, new to the city, came up to her. — Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 The Marlins now have several first base options at Triple A among Long, Deyvison De Los Santos and Kemp Alderman (who came up through the system as an outfielder but has 25 appearances at first base for Jacksonville this season). — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026 Robert, who came up with the White Sox, went 2-for-5 with three RBI in his second game back on the South Side since being traded to the Mets. — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 22 Aug. 2026 Art Clark, who came up with the idea to request pieces of the World Trade Center. — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026 The reason the thought came up is that the Cardinals essentially gave up on their team, even though the club was having a solid season. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for came up

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That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.

— Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.

— Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025

Definition of came

Verb

Galliano was fired by Christian Dior in 2011 after video footage surfaced showing the designer, who was inebriated, making antisemitic remarks in a Paris bar, La Perle.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026
The claim that Islam doesn’t really count as a religion surfaced early and explicitly in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

— Asma Uddin, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of surfaced

Verb

Sky guard Natasha Cloud approached Freedom’s courtside seat during a third-quarter timeout, leading to a verbal exchange.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026
As the end approached, families moved out, one at a time, hugging and saying goodbyes to each other outside their dorms.

— Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of approached

Verb

Newcastle’s summer wobbled when news emerged in late June that Guimaraes was fixed on Arsenal.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
The honeypot sites of royal Rajasthan—spliced by the brown slopes of the Aravalli Range, the state emerged after Partition from a mosaic of 22 feudal kingdoms—are so many people’s taster to India.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026