come up with

1. Produce, supply; also, discover. For example, Henry always comes up with the wrong answer, or We're hoping they come up with a cure in time to help Aunt Alice. [First half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

“I don’t know how in Japan they always come up with cute scenarios and cute scenes and cute gestures. It’s almost like there’s a school on how to draw dogs doing cute things, cats doing cute things.”

From Los Angeles Times

Better, the county lawyers reasoned, to come up with a total sum that wouldn’t drain coffers of the government, which is responsible for the social safety net for the poorest residents, and let someone else divvy it up among the thousands of victims.

From Los Angeles Times

Now Shedeur Sanders has come up with an equally inventive way of responding without responding to reporters’ questions: silence.

From Los Angeles Times

The executive order is more broadly intended to come up with ideas on how to reduce the risk and better share the cost of wildfires — as well as to shore up California’s insurance market and investor-owned utilities — following the devastation caused by the January Los Angeles blazes.

From Los Angeles Times

This is what he’s come up with.

From Slate

Related Words

• discover 
• find 
• invent 
• offer 
• present 
• produce 
• propose 
• provide 
• recommend 
• submit