Definition of "surfaced" []

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

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• "The term surfaced a few years ago, in part because opponents of net-neutrality regulations began talking up that angle."
• "His name surfaced on the list of Most Wanted terrorists when police named him in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in March 2009."
• "The word surfaced in South Africa in 1962 amid the controversy about apartheid."