Come and Keep

Come

Come verb - To move closer to.

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Keep and come are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Come".

Nearby Words: coming, comer

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

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Come and keep are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Come" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

character	come character	keep character
life	come life	keep life
time	come time	keep time
way	come way	keep way
Other words: face, world, game, story, ship.

To progress, you have to get in between two bumpers as they come and keep the timing up to get through to the end.

Source: That One Level / Super Monkey Ball
A few dragons in the Wings of Fire series keep humans as pets (and some editions of the fifth book even come with a letter on the proper care of human pets).

Source: Human Pet
If a Borg cannot solve something with the options it has beforehand, it will keep repeating them mindlessly instead of trying to come up with a new solution.

Source: Flanderization / Live-Action TV

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