Thesaurus results for CROPPED (UP)

cropped (up)

verb

past tense of crop (up)

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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For thousands of years, people have built in places where the earth roared long before human civilizations arose.

— Syra Ortiz-Blanes, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
One of those opportunities arose a week after the KCUYA contingent returned from All-Star weekend.

— Christian Marshall, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026

Definition of arose

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Those discussions often uncovered ambiguities in documentation or policy interpretation that would never have surfaced through technical testing alone.

— Arpan Saxena, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Ice Plex, Escondido’s former single-sheet ice sports facility on North Tulip Street, has also come up since Escondido Ice plans surfaced.

— Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026

Definition of surfaced

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The clip shows Jason standing before the box and reflecting on what happened in Season 1.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 July 2026
In a post on X, police called on everyone to leave the site of the event immediately once the attack happened, as ambulances and firefighters attended to the victims, according to a translation by Reuters news agency.

— Chandler Thornton, CNN Money, 25 July 2026

Definition of happened

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The earthquake's epicenter was about 7 miles southeast of Willits and occurred at a depth of 3 miles.

— CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
The shootings occurred in Maine and Texas, and ICE has acknowledged the men that were killed were not the target of the operations, but were in the country illegally.

— Luke Barr, ABC News, 21 July 2026

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