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lights (on or upon)

verb , present tense third-person singular of light (on or upon)

Synonyms and Antonyms of lights (on or upon)

to come upon unexpectedly or by chance

the novelist lit upon the plot for his latest thriller while visiting a remote lighthouse in Maine

Synonyms of lights (on or upon)

chances (upon), encounters, finds, happens (on or upon), hits (upon), meets, pitches (upon), stumbles (on or onto), tumbles (upon)

Words Related to lights (on or upon)

lucks (out, on, onto, or into)

confronts, faces

discovers, strikes, turns up

Phrases Synonymous with lights (on or upon)

bumps into, comes across, runs across, runs against, runs into, runs upon

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