Crop up
Crop up verb - To come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly.
Usage example: a new issue has just cropped up in the campaign
Pass
Pass verb - To take place.
Usage example: and the destruction of the town came to pass, just as the seer had predicted
Both terms in one sentence
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Of course, such claims crop up all the time — a historian recently claimed Queen Victoria was illegitimate, which if true would pass the throne to a minor member of the Danish royal family.
Source: Rightful King Returns - One thing that tends to crop up is that the dead relative was alive all along and was pretending to be dead in order to pass on their inheritance.
Source: Unexpected Inheritance -
There is a war going on nearby when the heroes have to pass through, and the Southern Forest is the size of Arendia, and is in between them and their destination... Evil Counterpart Most obviously Zedar (and to a lesser degree, Ctuchik) to Belgarath, a few others crop up.
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