crops up
Emerges without warning
To crop up is to appear or occur unexpectedly: Problems keep cropping up, Her name crops up in conversation occasionally.
The phrase suggests something emerging without warning or planning, like a plant sprouting unbidden.
It's more casual than "arise" and implies mild surprise at the occurrence.
- appearBecome perceptible to sight
- emergeCome out into view
- makes an appearanceBecomes visible or present
- occurCome into being
- unfoldSpread open from closed
come to light · manifest · turns up · comes up · surface · intrude · arise · show up · intervene · recur · spring up · bubble up · pop up · out of the blue · surprise · issue · broach · materialize
- pops upappears, arises, emerges, shows up, springs up