crop up
verb
cropped up; cropping up; crops up
: to come or appear when not expected
New problems crop up every day.
His name crops up frequently as a potential candidate.
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Pretzels predate many other favorite snacks such as potato chips and crackers, each of which cropped up before the Civil War.
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
By Caroline Tien At the same time, endo belly may also emerge from not-so-inflammatory gut conditions that often crop up alongside endo, like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)—both of which are known to cause GI issues and respond to changes in diet.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
And as a habitual transgressor of rules and norms, Trump seems unlikely to stick to any parameters that might mitigate the conflicts among great powers that would inevitably crop up.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
The definitive cinema about the war on terror may actually be the comic-book morality test of the surveillance apparatus that crops up in the third act of The Dark Knight.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
By Caroline Tien At the same time, endo belly may also emerge from not-so-inflammatory gut conditions that often crop up alongside endo, like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)—both of which are known to cause GI issues and respond to changes in diet.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
And as a habitual transgressor of rules and norms, Trump seems unlikely to stick to any parameters that might mitigate the conflicts among great powers that would inevitably crop up.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
The definitive cinema about the war on terror may actually be the comic-book morality test of the surveillance apparatus that crops up in the third act of The Dark Knight.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Crop up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crop%20up. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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