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What does spring up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word spring up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To appear suddenly.
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To come rapidly into existence.
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Numerous examples show that cool art scenes spring up out of economically depressed areas.
Indeed, cliques and cabals spring up and create their own behavioral benchmarks, codes of conduct simultaneously acting inclusive and exclusive.
Like urban garages, car parts shops and so on, such places tend to spring up spontaneously like weeds in wastelands and interstices of cities.
Democrats will need some truly Shadowy groups, brand new 527s that spring up, launch ads and push polls in key states, and then fade away.
They say money doesn't grow on trees, but it does spring up from jelly bean soil in these graduation party centerpieces.
Other investigators argue that only in cases where more than two languages are in contact do true pidgins spring up.

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