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Verb
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Animal-print shoes have kept turning up this spring, after a late-2025 and early-2026 winter run.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
11 May 2026 -
Two weeks ago, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors declared a local emergency after the mussels began increasingly turning up in water equipment there.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
8 May 2026
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Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte (Enyi Okoronkwo) is promoted to chief fellow party animal and tempter, showing up at Mozart’s door draped in women.—
Robert Lloyd,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2026
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The data shows that black and brown people spend much longer time in longer lines, purging people- people literally showing up and not knowing that their names have been purged from the rolls.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 May 2026
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“Sneaking up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sneaking%20up. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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