What is "cropping up"

Usage examples of "cropping up".

But can chance account for the fact that these and other prime integers of precession keep cropping up in supposedly unrelated mythologies from all over the world, and in such stolid but enduring vehicles as calendar systems and works of architecture?

Occasional echoes of that feeling had kept cropping up through the years, even after he'd been happily yoked to Selatre for a long time.

Fallacies are cropping up now and again, and I shall have occasion to refer to one or two of these.

With tensions and brush wars cropping up all over the New Republic, I'm not at all sure we're in any shape to deal rationally with something like this.

In Germany, the petty-bourgeois class, a relic of the sixteenth century, and since then constantly cropping up again under the various forms, is the real social basis of the existing state of things.

It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones.

They have decided to put their heads together over the small matter of the tattoo that keeps cropping up-what did you call it?

And I certainly won't contest the fact that there are too many of us - the news is evidence enough for me, what with all these famines they're having in Asia and plague still cropping up in Latin America and the development of this seasonal nomadism in Africa because half the year the land won't support the people who are on it All this I'm giving you without argument.

She had finally taken Edmund's advice and started thinking strategically, letting her sentient avatars drift out to handle the moment-to-moment crises that were cropping up everywhere.