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sprung
verb as in jump, skip
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The main organiser of the Falkirk protests is the group Save Our Kids and Our Kids Future, which sprung up in response to Nikzad's crime.
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Aidan Toner-Rodgers, 27, sprung to the upper tiers of economics as a graduate student late last year from virtually out of nowhere.
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Angelica’s sympathies may have sprung, in part, from her own marital trials.
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The words had sprung into her mind when the children mentioned “sheeted ghosts” to the baroness.
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“The roof of Ashton Place seems to have sprung a leak,” she thought, still in a deep doze.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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