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come by

verb

Definitions

  1. To obtain

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

    • A loyal friend is hard to come by.
    • Somehow he came by a substantial fortune.

  2. To come near to

    To come near to; to pass; to visit.

    • Your beau came by while you were shopping.

  3. A command to a sheepdog to move clockwise around the sheep

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for come by. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA