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
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  • The 20-day has turned up and appears to be crossing the 50, and LVS has outperformed the S&P since the beginning of H2 26; those who want to try to call the rebound early should probably consider calls for the job.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Another search of Davis’ associated home turned up a Monte Carlo receipt for the time Shakur was killed.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of turned up
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  • Pawloski said Amazon seemed to invest fewer resources into improving MTurk at the same time as more data labeling services arrived, causing many turkers to shift to competing platforms.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • London — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived back in the United Kingdom on Wednesday, according to multiple British media outlets.
    — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of arrived
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  • The South Bay reached record employment in July, adding 3,300 jobs even as California shed 20,500 positions and the Bay Area’s technology sector continued to contract, new state figures show.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • While both sides have indicated that an interim agreement is forthcoming, with the president even Truthing Wednesday that a deal had been reached, it hasn’t been finalized.
    — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of reached
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  • Dramatic footage shows a torrent of water hitting at the Nepal-China border.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Parton earned dozens of top 10 country hits, and her professional ambitions grew along with her career.
    — Jewly Hight, NPR, 25 Aug. 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
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  • 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
  • Larson showed up at the buzzer, and won — hours after finishing sixth in Richmond.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of showed up
Verb
  • Your employees also should be able to identify where and how output originated, detail the data security measures in place and express confidence in the level of accuracy attained.
    — Suzanne Konstance, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Created just one year before Mickey Mouse, Oswald has attained cult status in Disney history.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of attained
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