outcrop

verb

Definition of outcropnext
as in to surface

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Recent Examples of outcrop The previously oldest rock formation was the Acasta Gneiss, outcropping in the Slave Craton of the Canadian Northwest Territories. — David Bressan, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 The granite outcropping that so enchanted Brown and Weisgard is called Pole Island. — Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024 The permit area contains two outcropping porphyry targets (Ricardo Herrera and Sortilegio) and one zone with signatures of both porphyry-epithermal and skarn mineralization (Vista Alegre). — Sacramento Bee, 2 July 2024 Five friends traveled from Florida to be on a rock outcropping to witness the celestial event. — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for outcrop
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outcrop
  1. surface
  2. break out
  3. rise
  4. issue
  5. emerge
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  • Manifest surfaces Machado’s team soon learned that information about one of the charter flights had circulated outside the group.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
  • For decades, the seabirds have pecked at whales surfacing to breathe, gorging on their skin and blubber.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of surface
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  • The release follows a March announcement after the Iran war broke out that International Energy Agency member countries would release 426 million barrels of oil and products to stabilize the oil market.
    — Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, had recently disclosed astonishing details about how its artificial intelligence agents had broken out of their systems, hacked into another company and tried to cover their tracks.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
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  • Those challenges become tomorrow’s workforce shortages, rising health care costs, and lost economic potential.
    — Stanley McChrystal, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026
  • It is inspired by the true story of the world’s first celebrity chef, Antonin Carême (Voisin), who rose from humble beginnings in Paris to the height of culinary stardom in Napoleon’s Europe.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of rise
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  • More than 120 National Guard members were activated, part of roughly 400 statewide after the governor issued an emergency proclamation.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
  • They were issued by everyone from the Japanese government, ExxonMobil, and the World Bank to American high schools, Sri Lankan banks, and the Church of England.
    — Robin Wigglesworth, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of issue
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  • Currently, the interplay of elevated interest rates and high oil prices is intensifying risk aversion across global markets, suggesting capital outflow pressure on emerging market bonds could persist for some time.
    — , CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Both came away with a close-up view of the challenges facing emerging labels.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
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