Come up and Start

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Come up verb - Start running, functioning, or operating.

Usage example: the computer came up

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

Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).

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Come up and start are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Come up" instead a verb "Start".

Nearby Words: started, startled, starting, starter, startup

Right Behind Me: Several marines are talking about how Miranda saved them with "Psychic Powers," (biotics), when several others come up and start talking about Samara doing the same thing.

Source: Fan Fic / When There Was A Tomorrow
Give them something to reverse-engineer and they'll outdo the original, but start them off with a problem and ask them to come up with a solution... Nope.

Source: Fanfic / XCOM Second Contact
One would think it would have come up in the series previously that the characters could start talking to each with their minds at any given moment.

Source: Deus Ex Machina / Live-Action TV

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