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Princeton's WordNet

  1. drop by, drop in, come byverb

    visit informally and spontaneously

    "We frequently drop by the neighbors' house for a cup of coffee"

  2. come by, come intoverb

    obtain, especially accidentally

Wiktionary

  1. come byverb

    To obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.

  2. come byverb

    To come near to; to pass; to visit.

  3. come byinterjection

    A command to a sheepdog to move clockwise around the sheep

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  1. come by

    "Come by" is a phrasal verb that generally means to acquire, obtain, or get something. It can also be used to mean visiting or dropping in at a particular place. The mode or ease of obtaining something or visiting a place may be implied or specified.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of come by in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of come by in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of come by in a Sentence

  1. Ralph Tripp:

    These treatments have seen some effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2, but they’re very expensive and very hard to come by, in reality, there are only a handful of options that can actually be used because of the cost, restricted IV usage, and lack of access. That’s not very useful to the world.

  2. David Axelrod:

    The important thing for Joe Biden -- and Joe Biden should come by this naturally, because Joe Biden's very good at this, unusually good for politicians -- is to speak to people about what's going on in their lives and give them a sense of understanding about what's going on in their lives without looking and trying too hard to tell them what a great job Joe Biden's doing, joe Biden needs to be the empathizer-in-chief.

  3. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:

    Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

  4. Dylan Gordon:

    We've had plenty of homeless people come by our table and just filled their bags with as much food as they could carry, plenty of locals come by who have had their jobs hurt by this protest.

  5. Lindsey Graham:

    As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.


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  • تعالArabic
  • stavitCzech
  • bekommenGerman
  • visitar, encontrar, hallarSpanish
  • pilhar, encontrarPortuguese
  • достать, доставать, получать, добыть, заглядывать, получить, добывать, зайти, заглянуть, заходитьRussian
  • کی طرف سے آنےUrdu

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    a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
    A affront
    B render
    C scarper
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