outcrop

verb

Definition of outcropnext
as in to surface

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Recent Examples of outcrop The previously oldest rock formation was the Acasta Gneiss, outcropping in the Slave Craton of the Canadian Northwest Territories. — David Bressan, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 The granite outcropping that so enchanted Brown and Weisgard is called Pole Island. — Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024 The permit area contains two outcropping porphyry targets (Ricardo Herrera and Sortilegio) and one zone with signatures of both porphyry-epithermal and skarn mineralization (Vista Alegre). — Sacramento Bee, 2 July 2024 Five friends traveled from Florida to be on a rock outcropping to witness the celestial event. — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for outcrop
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outcrop
  1. surface
  2. break out
  3. rise
  4. issue
  5. emerge
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  • Morning coffee, a work call under shade, weeknight dinner and a wind-down soak each earn their own outdoor room, with the furniture, shade and surfacing that activity requires.
    — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026
  • But complications surfaced in June 2024, when a prosecutor uncovered that a deputy chief assistant at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office’s legal division had filled out a death penalty waiver form in Morris’ case.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of surface
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  • In Game 1, the Guardians broke out their bats and put up seven runs on the board.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • On Thursday, several brush fires broke out across the region, fueled by hot temperatures and winds.
    — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of break out
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  • The price of Brent crude oil rose to $106 per barrel this morning.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The milestone arrives at a precarious time for Australia’s festival sector, which has seen a wave of cancellations and closures in recent years amid rising costs and softening ticket sales.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of rise
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  • Ukraine's Foreign Ministry apologized on Sunday after a drone entered Lithuania's airspace, prompting authorities to issue an air raid warning.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Separate challenges to the law divided two federal circuit courts, which issued conflicting decisions in April, only 11 days apart.
    — Michael Kunzelman, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of issue
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  • Some data centers are now being built at gigawatt scale—roughly the power demand of a small city, says Anuja Ratnayake, emerging technology executive at the Electric Power Research Institute.
    — Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The model became the first real hit in the emerging athletic shoe industry.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
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