- present participle of crop.
cropping
Example Sentences
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Deutsche Bank recently found the phrase “broad-based” cropping up repeatedly in earnings calls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The process got more mechanized through the back half of the American Century—out with the cover cropping, in with the monocrop, packed tight as can be.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
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 keeps cropping up, doesn’t it?” she said.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
