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come from verb

  1. To have as one's birthplace or nationality.“Most tourists in Mallorca come from England.   My girlfriend comes from Sweden.”
  2. To be derived from.
  3. (slightly informal) To derive one's opinion or argument from; to take as a conceptual starting point.“Even though I have a more progressive philosophy, I can understand where he's coming from. There was a time in my life when it was hard for me to adapt to change, myself.”

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