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crept up

verb

past tense of creep up
as in sneaked up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crept up
  1. turned up
  2. arrived
  3. reached
  4. hit
  5. came
  6. showed up
  7. attained
Verb
  • Defensive coordinator Brian Flores turned up the heat on Love, who turned the ball over twice in the final five minutes.
    — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • In recent weeks, dozens of sea lions suffering from domoic acid poisoning have turned up on beaches from Monterey County to Sonoma County.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of turned up
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  • As a result, the Faulkner County Animal Shelter was contacted and later arrived to assist with the investigation.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The teams that will be ready for whatever AI does next aren’t the ones who arrived knowing the most.
    — Brittany Murrey, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of arrived
Verb
  • Not so much about the people who thought the Lions reached to select him with the 18th pick in the 2023 draft.
    — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The rocket kept flying after the anomaly and still reached orbit.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of reached
Verb
  • If the Sabres can find some more success with the man advantage, Thompson shouldn’t have much trouble hitting the 40-goal mark again.
    — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Japan's 10-year government bond yield recently breached 3%, hitting a high not seen in roughly 30 years.
    — , CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of hit
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  • That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
Definition of came
Verb
  • Not sure what happened there, but SeanJo definitely showed up for work.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026
  • This tells you how incredible our crew and production staff were — three-fourths of them showed up to the karaoke bar in Hawaiian shirts in solidarity.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of showed up
Verb
  • In this new culture, freedom was attained not through engagement in political struggle but through individual consumer choices.
    — Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The Tennessee singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist hailed from a vanishing class, a 20th-century monocultural phenomenon who attained a household-name status that never lost its luster.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
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