- present participle of crop.
cropping
Example Sentences
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Suspicious bets, perhaps relying on insider information, keep cropping up on prediction markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The process got more mechanized through the back half of the American Century—out with the cover cropping, in with the monocrop, packed tight as can be.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Issues within the deal are already cropping up.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
There's another place I see this undue certainty cropping up: the fraught debate over whether we can continue listening to the music, or watching the films, of artists who have done bad things.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
When she was in the saddle, she could ride so fast that there was no chance of gemstones cropping up in her wake.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
