sprang
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Around the same time, a loose group of CEOs affiliated with API and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a trade group that represents refiners, sprang into action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
She sprang from Zeus’ skull fully formed; her embryonic development reduced to a male deity’s headache.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Araki sprang out of the New Queer Cinema of the ’90s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
He said it sprang from his love of painting animals, then became an "exercise in looking into grief", also honouring friends who had died.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
By luck or persistence, either women took roles right beside men or they joined volunteer regiments known as “people’s corps” that sprang up all over the nation and later merged with the Red Army.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
