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With many of the fastest-growing companies remaining private for years, a cottage industry of secondary-share sale platforms has cropped up.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

But newcomers appear unfazed, Lei wrote, naming at least eight EV brands from Chinese automakers that have cropped up over the last two years.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Privacy-rights groups have cropped up across the country, and major platforms have paid large settlements to consumers whose data was sold unwittingly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Dead or dying gray whales have also cropped up in Washington state and Oregon.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

And it just so happened that in the fall of 1996 a new opportunity had cropped up almost out of nowhere.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama