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While on her call, she quickly ordered a pack from one of the lightning-fast delivery services that has cropped up in India.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

But this more unusual trading pattern has cropped up a few times in the past year.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

In the last couple of years, a cottage industry of unique, new social apps has cropped.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025

Since the first human outbreak of H5N1 in Hong Kong in 1997, the disease has cropped up sporadically around the world, almost entirely infecting people who worked directly with poultry.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2024

“No fault to find at all,” replied Miles, suffering himself to be hurried away by his new friend; “but wherever I have gone since arriving in Portsmouth her name has cropped up!”

From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)