come from

verb

1. to be or have been a resident or native (of)

   Ernst comes from Geneva

2. to originate from or derive from

   chocolate comes from the cacao tree

   the word filibuster comes from the Dutch word for pirate

3. informal,  the reasons for someone's behaviour, opinions, or comments

   I can understand where you're coming from

Idioms and Phrases

See come out of .

Arrive from someone or somewhere, as in This package just came from Alice , or Where did these chairs come from? [c. 1300] Also see where one is coming from .

Example Sentences

"I think once a confirmed detection at 5-sigma is achieved, maybe within a few years, the next step will be to ask: what is the origin of the waves? At that point, our method could be useful to distinguish whether they come from inflation or from nearby supermassive black hole binaries," Asada concludes.

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"They come from life. So you've got to live to write."

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But when they do, expect the accomplishment to come from the bottom up.

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Revenue would come from the company’s website, and fresh content had to be cranked out.

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Space-based observatories and ground telescopes have given us extraordinary images of the Sun's surface, atmosphere, and magnetic fields, but nearly all of those observations come from within the ecliptic plane -- the narrow zone where Earth and most other planets orbit.

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