as in surfaces
to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly
a new issue sprang up at yesterday's meeting of the school board
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This could look like a deeper level of intimacy in a romantic relationship, a business alliance leveling up, or a friendship where truth finally surfaces.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
12 Oct. 2025 -
Hinson’s group empowers women leaders to do this via the Power Archetype Index, a diagnostic framework that surfaces unconscious leadership patterns and provides women with a personal roadmap of the four factors that underpin impact.—
Serenity Gibbons,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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No matter what situation arises, the player knows how to solve it.—
Joe Boylan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Digital exhaustion is a modern workplace challenge that arises not from poor management, but from the way digital tools disrupt our cognitive and emotional balance.—
Harvard Business Review,
Harvard Business Review,
16 Oct. 2025
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Can Sheppard play well enough that Houston emerges as a contender with him as its point guard?—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Reassess the lawn when spring growth emerges to determine if overseeding or sod is needed.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
14 Oct. 2025
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What happens in-house should be protected, and none of that should have gotten out.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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And once that happens, the risks do not stay confined to one company.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Springs (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/springs%20%28up%29. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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