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

The changes also appear to address unintended consequences that arose from new rules implemented in August 2024, beginning with the Class of 2025.

— Mike Sando, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
This belief likely arose from the species’ habit of sharing such sites with other snakes.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of arose

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

Definition of emerged

Verb

And, fortuitously for would-be sponsors, something happened in tennis that made these arrangements even more appealing.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Trust your gut when something feels off, verify what happened and act quickly to lock down your accounts and credit.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026