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Common collocations with come up with in American Collocation

come up with phrasal verb transitive

US

idea or plan

concept
idea
plan
proposal
scheme
strategy
suggestion

How did you come up with the idea of using a river in this way?

answer

answer
result
solution

Nobody else has come up with a solution.

explanation

explanation
model
theory

Astronomers have been attempting to come up with an explanation for this anomaly.