spring up
phrasal verb
sprang up or sprung up; sprung up; springing up; springs up
: to grow or appear suddenly
The weeds sprang up overnight.
New housing developments are springing up all over the state.
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But the issue of homelessness has also become a political liability for Democrats in California and elsewhere, with their Republican opponents drawing attention to striking images of the shabby encampments that sprang up under the party's governance.
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Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Eventually, the five collectives that had sprung up to compensate Texas athletes across various sports merged into the Texas One Fund, which is now the school’s exclusive collective.
—Sam Khan Jr., New York Times, 1 May 2025
Her celebrated lip butter balm packed with peptides stored in covetable little tubes—not to mention the the cell phone cases that sprang up around them—achieved such fame that, since that moment, the lip balm has risen to the top of the social conversation.
—María Munsuri, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2025
Landau starts thinking about how the ensemble will navigate a change into another scene at the encampment that has sprung up around Floyd’s entrapment.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
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Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Eventually, the five collectives that had sprung up to compensate Texas athletes across various sports merged into the Texas One Fund, which is now the school’s exclusive collective.
—Sam Khan Jr., New York Times, 1 May 2025
Her celebrated lip butter balm packed with peptides stored in covetable little tubes—not to mention the the cell phone cases that sprang up around them—achieved such fame that, since that moment, the lip balm has risen to the top of the social conversation.
—María Munsuri, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2025
Landau starts thinking about how the ensemble will navigate a change into another scene at the encampment that has sprung up around Floyd’s entrapment.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Spring up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spring%20up. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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