cropped (up)

past tense of crop (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cropped (up)
Verb
  • In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Western European countries sought a way to defend themselves in the event Germany again arose as a security challenge.
    John Deni, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • When challenges arose and employees suggested a different approach, Kentley-Klay and Levinson refused to waver, the people said.
    Salvador Rodriguez,Annie Palmer, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The campaigns show how social media posts or personal messages — even by accounts with few followers or from people who are not public figures — could easily be surfaced and publicized, and people’s personal information can be spread across the internet at a time when doxxing is easier than ever.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Last year, arguably the best home crowd of the season surfaced for the Minnesota Vikings’ matchup against the Atlanta Falcons.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The First Intifada emerged in the wake of Qassam’s death.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The United States has emerged as the largest investor in commercial spyware—a global industry that has enabled the covert surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders, politicians, diplomats, and others, posing grave threats to human rights and national security.
    Vas Panagiotopoulos, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kirk assassination angers and unsettles leaders, residents The assassination of Kirk, which happened in front of hundreds of people and was captured on video and widely circulated on social media, has in particular rattled the nation and drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum.
    Mark Vancleave, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This is mirroring exactly what happened with Mugen Train, and those audience scores are currently sitting at a 99%.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Indeed, Walt Disney himself came up with the idea for Disneyland during a visit to Griffith Park in Los Angeles with his daughters.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This Einsteinian dismissal would later be reversed, but only after much more evidence poured in, and after many others came up, independently, with the same ideas that Lemaître put forth in his letter to Einstein.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, diminishing perceptions that a college education is very important have occurred relatively equally among both Republicans and Democrats, suggesting that other factors must also be at play.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The incident occurred just before half distance in the Zandvoort race, during the safety car period that followed Lewis Hamilton’s solo crash, with Sainz trying to pass Lawson for seventh place at the outside of the track’s Tarzan Turn 1.
    Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Cropped (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cropped%20%28up%29. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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