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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hits (on or upon)
  1. finds
  2. learns
  3. discovers
  4. gets
  5. runs down
  6. turns up
  7. digs up
  8. locates
Verb
  • The show finds ways to expose the worst in its characters, their pettiest, most vengeful, greediest parts.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Also screening is Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, another feature from Cannes, following a successful company director called Gleb, who finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of finds
Verb
  • The next edge is AI that truly learns from each interaction rather than just recomputing every answer.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • As Tony learns on one privileged day in the otherwise empty restaurant, the man even makes his own ketchup!
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 July 2026
Definition of learns
Verb
  • Along the way Danny discovers that family is not always the one you are born into, but the one that believes in you when no one else will.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 31 July 2026
  • Alice craves mentorship but can’t help noting how often Nora drinks on the job; Nora, who discovers Alice having a panic attack in the bathroom, wonders whether the newbie stands a chance of making it in the Bureau.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
Definition of discovers
Verb
  • But the template—already structured for your business, with the right fields and formulas—gets you to an answer in minutes, not hours.
    — Yu Fang, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Washington has won three straight and wants to shore up its playoff position as the season gets toward crunch time.
    — Torrey Hart, New York Times, 31 July 2026
Definition of gets
Verb
  • Blood runs down Zack’s chin before his parents swear to tell the truth.
    — JP Mangalindan, Time, 31 July 2026
  • Neighbors say when storms hit, water runs down the parking lot on one side, off the road on another, and down a slope in the back.
    — Dan Snyder, CBS News, 29 July 2026
Definition of runs down
Verb
  • Come nighttime, La Plaza, the resort’s open courtyard resembling a town square, dims the lights and turns up the volume to the beats of international DJs.
    — Jennifer Fernández Solano, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • The one god who periodically turns up, Zendaya’s Athena – supposedly Ulysses’ divine protector against the wrath of Zeus and Poseidon and all the rest – has surprisingly little to do in this version.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026
Definition of turns up
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Tamas locates its tragedy not only in violence and displacement but also in the speed with which neighbors become enemies while those who engineer communal hatred remain insulated from the suffering that follows.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
  • The female locates and stings a large insect such as a cicada or katydid and then brings it back to the burrow.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026
Definition of locates
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