as in arising
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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Black women, Gregory said, seemed to have a higher incidence of peripartum cardiomyopathy, a rare form of heart failure arising during or shortly after pregnancy.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2026 -
This demand is arising as traditional automakers face challenges with software execution.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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New theories about Powell’s true identity kept surfacing during filming, but for the Evangelistas, every lead seemed to raise even more questions than answers.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2026
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Today’s astro-weather could leave you mentally overstimulated or emotionally drained, but a deeper truth is surfacing.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
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For a while, SDFC had been emerging from its funk.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 May 2026
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Through programming spanning the Grammys, Emmys, Oscars, and Cannes, his work focuses on building practical and cultural bridges between the creative industries and emerging AI tools.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
14 May 2026
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CollegeHumor was part of a generation of online video pioneers—coming up well before YouTube and before short-form and streaming video became the lingua franca of the internet.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2026
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The 38-year-old Frenchman scored a hat trick in his debut in February, and his new club then won the King’s Cup, a Saudi knockout tournament, before coming up just shy of Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr in the league championship race.—
Brett Knight,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Their efforts have resulted in access policy changes in some states, including Massachusetts and Washington, but elsewhere reforms are happening slowly or not at all.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 May 2026
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At Workhuman Forum London, the renowned corporate psychologist and author Susan David told me that when there’s so much disruption happening internally in organizations, there’s one critical skill that both leaders and the professionals being laid off need to develop now.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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“Springing (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/springing%20%28up%29. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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