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to crop up
[phrase form: crop]
01
to appear or arise unexpectedly, often referring to a problem, issue, or situation that was not previously anticipated or planned for
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Inseparable
Particle
up
Base verb
crop
Present tense
crop up
3rd person singular
crops up
Present participle
cropping up
Past simple
cropped up
Past participle
cropped up
Examples
Just before the event, technical difficulties cropped up, causing a slight delay in the scheduled program.
