crop up
informal— phrasal verb with crop uk/krɒp/us/krɑːp/verb -pp-
to happen or appear unexpectedly:
Her name keeps cropping up in conversation.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Occurring and happening
- afoot
- assail
- asynchronous
- attendant
- be at work idiom
- become
- come
- come up
- concur
- event
- go ahead
- go down
- go together
- go with sth
- hand
- happen
- intervene
- materialize
- occur
- underway
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