as in arose
to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly
a new issue has just cropped up in the campaign
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However, speculation of their breakup arose in early 2024 when the two wiped their Instagrams of each other.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
9 Jan. 2026 -
The original postponement announcement stated NASA was monitoring a medical concern that arose Wednesday afternoon.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2026
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The two were spotted closely talking and being touchy at the event and videos quickly surfaced of their flirty encounter.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026
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Federal agents with the FBI and USDA executed a search warrant at the Hopkins County ranch after a video surfaced showing the owner shooting and killing one of the dogs.—
J.D. Miles,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Led by teenage phenom Macklin Celebrini, the Sharks have emerged after years in the rebuilding wilderness as a legitimate playoff contender.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2026
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Python has emerged as the dominant language for building and experimenting with models.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
15 Jan. 2026
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What happened next — her then-husband Joey Buttafuoco's 17-year-old mistress Amy Fisher showing up at her door and shooting her point-blank in the face — created an almost instant media firestorm.—
Janine Rubenstein,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026
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The last time this happened was in 2018, with observers in Europe reporting a brief surge of more than 100 meteors per hour.—
Michael d'Estries,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Jan. 2026
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The prototype — designed, like the Miura, by Gandini — first appeared at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, an impossible doorstop of a spaceship with a roofline that barely came up to the waists of the go-go-boot-wearing models who posed alongside it.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2025
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Lipovsky and Stein came up through the world of children’s TV, before earning Hollywood attention thanks to their 2018 cult hit Freaks, which was their own take on the superhero genre.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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The incident occurred during the episode 5 Roundtable.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Jan. 2026
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The first two racehorse deaths of 2026 in California occurred at Santa Anita.—
Kevin Modesti,
Oc Register,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Cropped (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cropped%20%28up%29. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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