Definition of "cropped" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of crop. (verb)

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• "Moreover, she was their friend, and they were not about to start jumping to conclusions because her name cropped up in some FBI file."
• "His name cropped up in 1963 in connection with the so-called Profumo debacle, in which an international vice ring nearly brought down the British government."
• "The term cropped up in the British press in the 1980s and 1990s, applied to the mothers of the Princess of Wales and Duchess of York; both mothers had left their husband and children."