Crop up
Crop up verb - To come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly.
Both terms in one sentence
- Roger and Helen crop up frequently; Dan and Emma were common for a while, but have since dropped in popularity, probably after everyone figured out how cringe-inducingly meta it was.
Source: Fanon / Harry Potter - Once the players figured out how to abuse the crafting system, however, problems started to crop up in the form of inflation (players could complete missions far faster than they should have been able to), but things eventually stabilized.
Source: Money for Nothing
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Figured and Crop up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crop_up/figured
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