cropping

Example Sentences

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Issues within the deal are already cropping up.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

There's another place I see this undue certainty cropping up: the fraught debate over whether we can continue listening to the music, or watching the films, of artists who have done bad things.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly where the weakening credits are, but winners and losers are cropping up everywhere as Wall Street questions many industries.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

And they are cropping up even as the regime has carried out waves of arrests targeting protesters and their sympathizers, from relatives to medical workers to civil-rights activists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Just watching the sheep cropping on the hillsides.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz