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View definitions for spring up

spring up

verb as in break out

verb as in come up

verb as in mushroom

verb as in rear

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Fancy new hotels are springing up with riverside cocktail bars and infinity pools.

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By 2014, he had become the face of the Umbrella Movement, a mass student protest with the umbrella as a symbol, which sprang up alongside the Occupy Central sit-in.

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"A black market has sprung up for infant milk, and it is one of the most commonly shoplifted items," he said.

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As a result, many scam websites have sprung up, trying to take advantage of people looking for a good deal on an expensive item.

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Similar campaigns against data centres are springing up all over the world, including in the Republic of Ireland, where such facilities use 21% of the country’s electricity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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