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View definitions for crop up

crop up

verb as in arise

verb as in come up

Strongest matches

Weak match

verb as in peep/peer

verb as in surface

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Speaking of the literature you love, the Bloomsbury writers crop up in your collection repeatedly.

Images of the hotel crop up repeatedly in his paintings, sometimes plagued by bats or monsters.

Previously unknown papyri crop up only to vanish into private collections and out of the sight of scholars forever.

There are dozens of targets that crop up around the world every day.

Such laws are exceedingly difficult to monitor, given the number of state-funded classes that might crop up.

Professor Theobald pointed out the difficulties that must begin to crop up, as she grew older.

In place of scandal there crop up arguments, for and against the Parliament, for and against the Jesuits.

It was true that this story might crop up again, years on, and ruin his life.

They were really well behaved children; but mischief seemed to crop up so very easily in their lives.

A thousand personal affairs crop up which require letters of a commercial rather than a social nature.

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On this page you'll find 401 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to crop up, such as: arrive, come, come out, develop, emerge, and materialize.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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