bubble up

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Verb1.bubble up - move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; "Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America"
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rise up, surface, come up, rise - come to the surface
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w>bubble up

vi (liquid) → aufsprudeln; (gas) → in Blasen/Bläschen hochsteigen; (excitement, emotions) → aufsteigen, hochkommen
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A: Actually, natural oil seeps on the ocean floor constantly bubble up petroleum.
Oil spill! A marine calamity raises the burning question: how to prevent a repeat disaster? (Oil/Oceans)
Unlikely characters bubble up into the plot, such as Oscar Wilde's father, who brings in the Irish version of the box-on-stilts, the Crannog.
Le Corbusier, The Noble Savage, Toward an Archaeology of Modernism
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