crop up
verb
cropped up; cropping up; crops up
: to come or appear when not expected
New problems crop up every day.
His name crops up frequently as a potential candidate.
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Creative accounting, of course, has a long history of cropping up during a boom, a tradition dating far back, to the Gilded Age when inflating assets, understating liabilities, and bribery were commonplace.
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Shrines crop up in her honor — both from those who wish to avoid her wrath and others who approve of her killings.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
Still, any gun training class will have to land on some key answers to thorny questions that will crop up from trainees.
—Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
The state funding that flows into them has also grown rapidly, along with the number of virtual schools cropping up statewide.
—Nashville Tennessean, 24 Sep. 2025
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Shrines crop up in her honor — both from those who wish to avoid her wrath and others who approve of her killings.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
Still, any gun training class will have to land on some key answers to thorny questions that will crop up from trainees.
—Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
The state funding that flows into them has also grown rapidly, along with the number of virtual schools cropping up statewide.
—Nashville Tennessean, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Crop up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crop%20up. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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