Thesaurus results for CROPS (UP)

crops (up)

verb

present tense third-person singular of crop (up)

as in surfaces

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly a new issue has just cropped up in the campaign

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Magnet Forensics unveiled Magnet AI this spring, an engine that surfaces artifacts in seconds and writes investigative summaries from the evidence.

— Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
What reads at a casual distance as serene maternal tenderness shifts, on closer inspection, into something more ambivalent—a shade of melancholy that surfaces only when the eye lingers on Mary’s face.

— Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026

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If risk management fails and a liability arises, hopefully it will be taken care of by liability insurance.

— Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
According to the Sepsis Alliance — a nonprofit dedicated to understanding the life-threatening condition that arises from an infection in the body — some patients can experience post sepsis syndrome.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Aug. 2026

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If no winner emerges then as well, this is likely to become the first lottery prize to cross $1 billion since December 2025.

— Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
The findings could provide a framework for studying how collective behavior emerges in different systems.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026

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But the public should also understand what happens when institutions reduce job security while continuing to pay way less than competing employers.

— Francisco Ruiz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
What happens there remains to be seen but, even if the EFL sees off that legal threat, this is far from the end of the organisation’s work on financial regulations — especially in the bottom two divisions.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026

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