crop up

verb

cropped up; cropping up; crops up

intransitive verb

: to come or appear when not expected
New problems crop up every day.
His name crops up frequently as a potential candidate.

Examples of crop up in a Sentence

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Like other subgenres that have cropped up over the years, Musou games have a more singular, cult-like following, one that’s kept growing over the course of the last two decades — and for good reason. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025 Talk to anyone who has worked with Vitor Reis — who is set to be Manchester City’s latest signing at centre-back — and the same descriptors keep on cropping up. Thom Harris, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025 At a time when the west’s global and regional rivals have been relentlessly expanding their influence in Europe, the Mideast and far east, circumstances keep cropping up to break that expansion - and the West keeps missing the chance. Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 Days after the wildfires began cropping up in the L.A. area, fire officials only first learned that the Santa Ynez Reservoir, capable of holding 117 gallons of water, had been out of commission since February. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for crop up 

Word History

Etymology

Note: See note at crop entry 2

First Known Use

1844, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of crop up was in 1844

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“Crop up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crop%20up. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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