- present participle of crop.
cropping
Example Sentences
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As well as cropping up on bar menus, people are popping red wine in the fridge at home.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Suspicious bets, perhaps relying on insider information, keep cropping up on prediction markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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
She talked about finishing college and going to law school, but distractions kept cropping up.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
