Usually means: Encounter or find by chance.
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  1. come across: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. come across, come across: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. come across: Collins English Dictionary
  4. come across: Vocabulary.com
  5. come across: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. come across: Wiktionary
  7. come across: Dictionary.com
  8. Come Across (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. come across: Rhymezone
  10. come across: Phrasal Verb Page
  11. come across: Free Dictionary
  12. come across: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. come across: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come across: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come across: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come across: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come across: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (come across)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, across.
verb:  (figuratively) To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.
verb:  (idiomatic) To give an appearance or impression; to project a certain image; to seem or appear (to be some way). [(often) with as; or (often) with like]
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To find, usually by accident.
verb:  To produce what was desired; to come up with the goods. [with with]
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To give in and do what is wanted or expected; to acquiesce to something.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To have sex; to give in to seduction.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To confess to something.

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