come into

• “Then, in 1990, he picked a forty-point underdog for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania who went on to trounce a former U.S. attorney general who had come into the contest with every advantage.”

  Simon & Schuster: How to Rig an Election

• “Indeed, environmental exposures to dioxin and PCBs—at amounts as low as five times the average level that most of us come into contact with in our day-to-day lives—can cause the thymus to shrink as much as 80 percent.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic

• “There were probably lots of possible explanations for how Shaughnessy had come into possession of that sweatshirt, how it came to have that rusty-looking stain.”

  Simon & Schuster: FALSE MERMAID

• “The 72nd Street stairs come into view, and I begin panicking, because our options are down to Riverside or the Trump Pier, both of which are gonna be packed on a Saturday—”

  Simon & Schuster: Venomous

• “The term psychologia seems to have first come into use about the end of the sixteenth century”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “The group, known to everybody by its initials, HICCASP, had come into being as a support group for President Franklin D.”

  Simon & Schuster: An American Life

• ““Yeah, right after you cross the railroad tracks when you come into town from the Scotchman Road.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Huckleberry Murders

• “These antibodies, or proteins in the blood, remember the organism that caused the disease and can recognize and inactivate it when we come into contact with it again.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic

• “It seems Caelum was ready to come into the world, immediately!”

  Simon & Schuster: The Wish Stealers

• “Millions of T cells are “educated” in your thymus to perform specific roles—such as, say, to recognize and eradicate an infiltrating influenza-A germ or food-borne bacteria like salmonella from your body, as well as hundreds of other antigens with which your body may come into contact.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic

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