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emerge

[ih-murj] / ɪˈmɜrdʒ /


Usage

What are other ways to say emerge? The verb emerge is used of coming forth from a place shut off from view, or from concealment, or the like, into sight and notice: The sun emerges from behind the clouds. Emanate is used of intangible things, as light or ideas, spreading from a source: Rumors often emanate from irresponsible persons. Issue is often used of a number of persons, a mass of matter, or a volume of smoke, sound, or the like, coming forth through any outlet or outlets: The crowd issued from the building.

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The Vermont team instead incorporated how often words appear in real communication, allowing patterns to emerge that might otherwise remain hidden.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The full details about the role and remit of the new lab are yet to emerge.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Now Kenyans are nervously waiting to see whether they acted in time—or whether Ebola will emerge outside of Nairobi’s quarantine wards and spread through the city of 5.6 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Figures emerge from his signature black background, their silhouettes resolving and dissolving amid legato drips and vigorous brushwork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

A person who travels through a wormhole will emerge at another point in space—and perhaps in time.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Even intelligence agencies struggle to obtain reliable information, and much of what emerges is heavily caveated as unverified or highly likely rather than confirmed fact.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

“What emerges from this shakeout, in some sense, I think the jury is still out.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

The distinction could help researchers better understand how consciousness emerges.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

What emerges is a book as entertaining as it is informative, a smartly crafted account that covers a broad swath of history’s most confounding puzzles and startling rediscoveries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

His reply emerges softly through the quiet dark behind me.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

This allowed the researchers to look backward through a decade of immune activity and identify changes that emerged before the diseases were recognized.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Questions have emerged about why the building suddenly collapsed and whether it met planning regulations.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

By July, the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital, headed by David Lorch, emerged as a potential solution.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Nusseibeh entered the race after no other candidate emerged as a clear favorite to succeed António Guterres at the end of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Soon the royal carriage emerged from the castle gates behind me to parade through The Kingdom and display the new queen.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Even during the Late Jurassic, when the earliest bird lineages were emerging, some species were developing adaptations that favored life on land rather than in the air.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

"That means staying ahead of emerging threats, from cyber attacks to biological risks, while building more of the critical technology our security depends on," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Its plan is to find emerging filmmakers overseas that fit the model of talent it has worked with in the U.S., the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

It adds El-Sayed to an emerging list of Democrats who, as unabashed members of the religious left, are comfortable talking about their faith openly.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Except, just like that, the sword brightened from black to its usual dull white, like the sun emerging from behind a cloud.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley


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