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spring up



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come up
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However, further scattered downpours and storms will spring up during the afternoon.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Cinema seems to spring up wherever Mr. McElwee looks—in one quietly virtuoso sequence from just before his surgery, he films a neighbor assembling a large flower box and imagines it’s his own coffin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared in mid-May, is a reminder that the next pandemic threat could spring up from anywhere, Tedros said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Then the world can continue to enforce the nonproliferation regime, so that more nuclear countries don’t spring up.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

A light rain begins to fall, not much more than mist, but several umbrellas spring up amongst the crowd.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern


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