Synonyms for come by
come by

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1. drop by, drop in, come byverb

   visit informally and spontaneously

   "We frequently drop by the neighbors' house for a cup of coffee"

   Synonyms:
   come into, drop by, drop in

2. come by, come intoverb

   obtain, especially accidentally

   Synonyms:
   come into, drop by, drop in

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1. come by

   Synonyms:
   get, obtain, gain, get possession of

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1. Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Sam Wahab:

   Access to capital in the current climate is hard to come by... however, we do highlight that Gulfsands have a compelling acreage position in multiple hydrocarbon provinces.

2. anonymous:

   How come the most natural things in the world are the most difficult to come by....it is the most natural,beautiful, self-enhancing and intoxicatingly breathtaking acts of nature that we humans take for granted at times-as our complexities and complicated human minds do not allow us to act as naturally as we were born to,but turn peace into war,love into suffering,pleasure into pain and the natural into the forgotten!

3. Annie Dillard:

   There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

4. Anupam Jena:

   The take-home message for patients is that healthy lifestyle choices and good health are important but are n’t easy to come by, both take work and even health care professionals find it difficult.

5. James Gardiner:

   Our brains rely heavily on glucose for energy,.. but in our evolutionary past it would have been hard to come by. So we have a deep-rooted preference for glucose-rich foods and seek them out.