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came up on

VERB
happen upon
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Rohrbaugh came up on Wall Street as a foreign-exchange derivatives trader.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

He was worried his relative inexperience could impact perception, but it "never came up" on set, he tells me.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

The issue came up on GM’s first-quarter earnings call on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

At The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live Qatar event this week, the question came up on stage, over meals and in conversations alongside the conference.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

And now as I came up on her back porch, Aunt Loma was the maddest white woman you ever saw.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns



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