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Recent Examples of emergent This emergent Catholic right in the U.S. has deepened in its loyalty to President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert. Liam Adams, USA Today, 12 May 2025 Slaveholders first developed the trope in the 1790s in their representations of the emergent nation of Haiti, framing it as a dangerous site of social experimentation and savagery where Black freedom would inexorably lead to white death. Time, 9 June 2025 In management literature, this aligns with the concept of emergent strategy, a process in which leaders begin with a broad objective but adapt their tactics as new information becomes available. Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025 With a 125-93 loss to an emergent Oklahoma City Thunder juggernaut on Sunday, the Nuggets’ 2024-25 season ended at the same juncture as last year: Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals. Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 18 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for emergent
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Adjective
  • Ra’s faith in cosmic travel put him at odds with other prominent African American figures of the period, who saw the space race as a distraction from the more urgent struggles of the civil rights era.
    Ekow Eshun July 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
  • What's new is the urgent need to respond to a fundamentally different business environment that's more interconnected than ever before.
    Tima Bansal, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Since then, Ben & Jerry’s politics have been a headache for its parent, and the tensions between the two have grown more acute as the business community got swept into the culture wars — first pulled to the left in the mid-2010s, then retreating rightward under the second Trump administration.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 June 2025
  • Decades later, that feeling is more acute: the gay beach in Chicago where it was taken no longer exists, memorialized today by a 2.5-acre garden in memory of those who lost their lives to AIDS.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 29 June 2025

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“Emergent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emergent. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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