come across

"My child does not belong in a building like that; every specialist that he has come across and even his psychiatrists have said he does not belong there."

The women who spoke to the BBC all agreed he came across as warm, genuine and even a little vulnerable at first.

Beans is never fazed by the challenge, but the characters can’t help but come across as flimsy masks.

What came across, very powerfully, was the immense pride the moderators had in the roles they had played in protecting the world from online harm.

Ms Robinson came across her story while working as an archivist at Wickham Market Archives.