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crops (up)

verb

present tense third-person singular of crop (up)

as in surfaces

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly a new issue has just cropped up in the campaign

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Manifest surfaces Machado’s team soon learned that information about one of the charter flights had circulated outside the group.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
The value appears when the team actually surfaces, tests and integrates what different people know.

— Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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Adult children often coordinate refills, arrange transportation, monitor deliveries, and contact the pharmacy when a question arises.

— L. Prather McKinnon, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2026
For example, when a Type 3 leader (Hurry Up/Be Perfect) manages a Type 5 specialist (Be Strong/Be Perfect), friction often arises not from conflicting goals but from contrasting work paces.

— Gia Tskhovrebadze, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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They’re led by Laura Berens, a CEO and entrepreneur, who emerges as the finest leader of the experiment with her firm-but-fair methods.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026
Tantalizing opportunities may be found in copper-oxide ceramics known as cuprates, but achieving them requires first understanding how the superconducting phenomenon emerges at relatively warm temperatures.

— Sven Badoux, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026

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But what happens when the season shifts, when the cloying good cheer of—groan—the holiday season comes with its candy stripes and jingle bells and partridges in pear trees?

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
Instead, energy production happens at the cellular level exactly where it’s needed, which is part of the reason why the body is so energy efficient.

— Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2026

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