if a name or subject crops up, someone mentions it
to happen suddenly or unexpectedly
Alice’s name keeps cropping up in our conversations.
Ben had to go back to work – a problem’s cropped up.
It is only in the last few years that it has cropped up for sale in the UK.
These foods also often crop up in other research on diet and brain health.
crops up
cropping up
cropped up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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