as in urgent
needing immediate attention
since the problem was not seen as emergent, implementation of the expensive solution for it was continually put off
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Recent Examples of emergent
In other words, what appears to be emergent to us today, with our present limitations of what is within our power to compute, may someday in the future be describable in purely reductionist terms.
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Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
While applying pre-emergent herbicides in September or October is the best defense against these weeds, mowing in late fall and winter can help manage any that appear after the herbicide window.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
Although likely unknown to older audiences, the platform is hugely popular with younger comedy fans, and has become a bubbling cauldron for emergent voices.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
And quite commonly the problem is that in an effort to give the grass every possible advantage, pre-emergent herbicide was applied with the seed — the thinking being that the herbicide will inhibit weeds from competing with the new grass plants.
—Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Sep. 2025
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Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
While applying pre-emergent herbicides in September or October is the best defense against these weeds, mowing in late fall and winter can help manage any that appear after the herbicide window.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
Although likely unknown to older audiences, the platform is hugely popular with younger comedy fans, and has become a bubbling cauldron for emergent voices.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
And quite commonly the problem is that in an effort to give the grass every possible advantage, pre-emergent herbicide was applied with the seed — the thinking being that the herbicide will inhibit weeds from competing with the new grass plants.
—Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emergent
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Singing this material with players who improvise — solos changing, every version being a little different — taught me about that urgent live-ensemble space where everyone’s living and dying by the next player onstage.—
Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
5 Nov. 2025
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This urgent political thriller about Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh opened the 2025 Venice International Film Festival before moving on to Telluride, Toronto, New York and London.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
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The more jihadist terrorists attack and displace civilian populations — who become refugees in their own country — the more poverty, already acute at 60%, rises and religious freedoms are suppressed.—
Kingsley Moghalu,
semafor.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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But Michael has also hit several roadblocks, with the King of Pop's past legal troubles haunting the production and Jackson's daughter, Paris, decrying its depiction of her late father, who died in 2009 from acute propofol intoxication.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Emergent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emergent. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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