spring up
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Cinema seems to spring up wherever Mr. McElwee looks—in one quietly virtuoso sequence from just before his surgery, he films a neighbor assembling a large flower box and imagines it’s his own coffin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared in mid-May, is a reminder that the next pandemic threat could spring up from anywhere, Tedros said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Then the world can continue to enforce the nonproliferation regime, so that more nuclear countries don’t spring up.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
“Carney business. The movies. The development was vast and rampant. Whole neighborhoods seemed to spring up instantly in desert locations.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Here’s more: “I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow. All gold, flowing...”
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
