sprang (up)

verb

variants or sprung (up)
Definition of sprang (up)next
past tense of spring (up)
as in surfaced
to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly a new issue sprang up at yesterday's meeting of the school board

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprang (up)
  1. surfaced
  2. arose
  3. emerged
  4. happened
  5. came up
  6. occurred
Verb
  • The tool flagged three suspicious batch codes and surfaced one lead that VML says became part of an active police investigation.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • In one 2026 analysis by RankRabbit AI of more than 350,000 business listings, only a small fraction were surfaced by AI assistants when users asked for recommendations—and AI visibility proved far harder to earn than a traditional local ranking.
    — Hastimal Jangid, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of surfaced
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Has the two-time All-Star fully emerged from his season-long funk?
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Cunningham has emerged as one of the biggest stars in the WNBA over the last year, especially among conservatives.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of emerged
Verb
  • What happened in Atlanta was so traumatic that, even three days on, its effects are still being felt.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • But that’s all happened in spite of the politicians, certainly not because of them.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Definition of happened
Verb
  • But the same questions came up after the Super Bowl and Kalshi quickly bounced back and continued to grow — even before the World Cup began — demonstrating the benefit of having such a wide array of events to bet on.
    — Nathaniel Popper, Fortune, 19 July 2026
  • When that opportunity came up to revisit that world, the sensory memories came flooding back.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 18 July 2026
Definition of came up
Verb
  • 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
Definition of occurred
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