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

Recent Examples on the Web Court cases challenging the use of the Bible, Ten Commandments and religious materials in classrooms have continued to crop up in the years since. Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024 Several companies and information exchange networks have cropped up in the private sector to try and address this problem, but none of them have managed to completely resolve it on their own. Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024 That parasitism has cropped up so many times in unrelated species — and thus evolved again and again — speaks to its success as an adaptive strategy. Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024 Be aware of phishing scams that have cropped up to capitalize on the CrowdStrike outage and do not download zip-files or software from unknown sources claiming to help with the outage. Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 21 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for crop up 

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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 18 Aug. 2024.

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