COMING UP Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

coming up

verb

Definition of coming up next

present participle of come up

as in drawing on

to come near or nearer the girl came up to the counter and asked if she could have her order prepared to go

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as in arising

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly let me know if anything else comes up during the project

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Recent Examples of coming up CollegeHumor was part of a generation of online video pioneers—coming up well before YouTube and before short-form and streaming video became the lingua franca of the internet. —

Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026 The 38-year-old Frenchman scored a hat trick in his debut in February, and his new club then won the King’s Cup, a Saudi knockout tournament, before coming up just shy of Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr in the league championship race. —

Brett Knight, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 Harris and Albies are reborn — and guys like Dominic Smith and Jorge Mateo are routinely coming up big. —

Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 22 May 2026 Some more Indian Prairie employees are slated to get raises coming up. —

Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026 Stylish, relaxed furniture and decor accentuate the star that keeps coming up—that amazing ocean view. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026 That was a motif that kept coming up and that interested me, this war analogy. —

Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026 Think of a pair of shoes made in India crossing the Atlantic and coming up the Chesapeake Bay, then being transferred in a container to a rail car and heading south — through the Howard Street Tunnel — or north, over the Susquehanna — to some retailer. —

Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2026 The only thing better than coming up with new ways to have fun is being invited to join in. —

Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026

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Verb

Directed by Aella Jordan-Edge, with Emslie and Arpita Ashok producing, the film stars Jodie Whittaker and Evie Jones, who also wrote the script, drawing on her experience of becoming a disabled adult.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 May 2026
As the United Kingdom works to make online spaces safer for children through age verification methods, kids are finding creative ways to skirt the rules, including drawing on facial hair to dupe facial recognition systems.

— Drew Pittock, USA Today, 10 May 2026