The phrase "come across a word" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe when someone encounters a word they are not familiar with or have not seen before. For example, "I was reading the book when I came across the word 'abrogate'."
"If they come across a word they don't know, they can go and get the dictionary to look it up".
It's just sight cues, so if I come across a word I haven't seen before, I can't read it".
But every so often he'd come across a word or phrase that "didn't sound quite right". That's when the process became most arduous.
I have tried to think of a less clumsy phrase than "not favourites" but I haven't yet come across a word which describes how I feel about this particular group without crossing into nasty territory.
You come across a word you do not understand; let it be "ongggt".
Have you ever come across a word or expression in another language that you found particularly weird, wonderful, quirky, mad or just beautiful?
It is a great relief, also, to come across a book with the word "atheists" in the title that responds to the claims of religion and its adherents with something more than an attack of the vapours.
She worked with such speed, with such an eye toward the finish line, that when she came across a word or a phrase that she couldn't make sense of she would skip it and move on.
Not long ago, looking up something in the unabridged dictionary, I came across a word that sums up the way I was then, and, for that matter, the way I am now — 'ambisinistrous,' or left-handed in both hands.
Study some, but realize that the chances of coming across a word that will appear in the Round One Test is very unlikely from a list you made.
Burnham calls himself an "Aryan librarian at the word Smithsonian" and comes across like a word-bender on a sugar rush.
