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crops up

vb. (en-third-person singularcrop up)

Usage examples of "crops up".

It crops up everywhere in the story and, in a manner of speaking, forms its convivial common ground.

That particular confrontation crops up in just about everyone's life.

If something unexpected crops up, we might have to modify things a bit, and if I tell you to jump, just jump.

I organized the material into (what I hope are) coherent topics and removed -- as much as possible -- the repetition that inevitably crops up in widely spaced interviews like these.

A similarity that crops up in over ten percent of all successful Petitions and Justifications.