Example Sentences

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It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly where the weakening credits are, but winners and losers are cropping up everywhere as Wall Street questions many industries.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

And they are cropping up even as the regime has carried out waves of arrests targeting protesters and their sympathizers, from relatives to medical workers to civil-rights activists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Signs of possible trouble are cropping up again in a crucial corner of financial markets despite the Federal Reserve’s best efforts to calm things down last week.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 15, 2025

The issue is it is the same problems that are cropping up again and again.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

By the end of each opera they are cropping up at an astonishing rate, sometimes several in every bar.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall