come up with
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"But we believe the best solution to keep this territorial integrity as strong as possible is to come up with some mechanisms so that all Iranians feel like they're the members of this country."
From Barron's
He told reporters that he and Pelicans trainer Daniel Bove had come up with a strategy to address his fitness while rehabbing his hamstring and that he stuck to it.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet again, I’ve come up with blanks.
From Literature
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“Seventy percent of our team’s time is spent on research, and what we’re doing is looking to come up with better definitions of value, growth, quality and sentiment,” Moghtader says.
From Barron's
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Pistons had come up with a straightforward plan for dealing with a young superstar named Michael Jordan.
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