fall upon

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fall upon (third-person singular simple present falls upon, present participle falling upon, simple past fell upon, past participle fallen upon)

  1. To experience; to suffer.
    With the rise of the Internet, some media fell upon hard times.
  2. To occur at some particular point in time.
  3. To set upon; to attack suddenly; to invade.
  4. To happen upon, find.
    • 1985 February 2, Malkah Barrsey Feldman, “Blacks & Jews: Vulnerability & Values”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 14:
      If we dig deeply into why it was so important for mainstream USA (and the rest that followed) to smear Jackson, we may fall upon the same reasons why more attention has been paid to Black women making anti-Semitic remarks than white women.

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