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Example Sentences

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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

Other signs of stress have cropped up as some private-credit funds mark down the value of their loans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The once-famous dark mane has gone white and is neatly cropped and the bushy mustache is now just a brush of hair below his nose.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

I tried to picture the serious white people as we’d come to know them, in their suits and hard briefcases and closely cropped hair.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline