HITS (ON OR UPON) Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

hits (on or upon)

verb

present tense third-person singular of hit (on or upon)

as in finds

to come upon after searching, study, or effort the doctor finally hit on what was wrong with the pain-wracked woman

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The agent reads a contract, finds the clause, fills in the field, and escalates the exception.

— Eshaan Jain, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Read kicks this tale off with a meet-cute and an unconventional relationship, but finds authentic emotion and real social issues to power the characters’ journeys forward.

— Katie Walsh, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of finds

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Israel robs children of their smallest joys because joy is the seed of hope, and that is how the body learns that captivity is not the natural condition of life.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Upon arriving in New York, April learns that her affable son Thoe (Toby Wallace) and his girlfriend Lucy (Odessa A’zion) have already met Sandra without her knowing.

— Matthew Huff, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of learns

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Guadagnino undoes the bubble wrap and discovers Bertolucci’s viewfinder, a key relic for a filmmaker who may well have had the best eye in cinema history.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
Written by Helstad, the film follows Jessica Lipki (Greer), a small-town lawyer who discovers a severed human finger in her bowl of chili at a regionally beloved fast-food chain.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of discovers

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When the judges announce Jude as the winner, Bi, Anna, and Joseph don’t look surprised, and each gets a small hopeful comment at the end.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
If Muhammad thrives in the slot and Gordon never gets healthy, maybe the rookie becomes the nickel of the future.

— Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of gets

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Take, for example, the watershed that runs down Clear Creek Canyon below Lookout Mountain, Mount Vernon and Rainbow Hill.

— Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2026
The Reds rallied from three runs down in the eighth inning after White Sox starter Sean Burke allowed only one run on three hits in seven innings.

— CBS News, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of runs down

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What begins as a journey for father and son to spread the ashes of their wife and mother, Faye, quickly turns into a fantastical adventure the tests their relationship and digs up ghosts from Kratos' past.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026
By chance, Bogdan digs up a gravesite that has bones laid on top of it—bones belonging to Peter Mercer.

— Barry Levitt, Time, 28 Aug. 2025

Definition of digs up

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Qualley locates defensive purpose in Maya’s stiff reserve, and an errant gleam of joy when Charlie’s dorky come-ons actually do the job.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
If most people tend to think of the art as the visual or sonic manifestation one encounters, Protocol Art locates the art not in its manifestations but in the work that generates them.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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