emerge

as in to arise
to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly problems emerged almost as soon as the contractor began the excavation for the swimming pool

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Recent Examples of emerge Mount Vernon emerged as the best domestic destination for the loom, but many in the denim industry feared they would be acquired by a company overseas. Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2025 But on closer inspection, modern details emerge—the flush sundeck a top the boat, curved windows on the main deck and helm area, and, almost impossibly, a fold-out beach club at the stern. Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025 In the process, new jobs emerge and economies adapt and evolve. Samantha Subin, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025 However, once a paranoid hermit nation of Europe, after 1992 Albania began to emerge from its fortress mindset. Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for emerge
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  • Anthropologist Eugenia Shanklin’s analysis of the details in this legend, and her discussions with Kom people (1989), led her to conclude that the geomyth arose after a real natural disaster centuries ago.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • When speaking with The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year, Next Gen NYC creator and executive producer Michaline Babich explained that the idea for the series arose from her time working on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • More old Reddit posts surfaced Wednesday, with The Advocate reporting that Platner used homophobic slurs and made anti-LGBTQ+ jokes between 2018 and 2021.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • On Saturday, reports surfaced about the death of former running back Doug Martin.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • Members of the committee from both political parties criticized Underly for choosing to accept an alumni award at Indiana University instead of appearing before the committee Thursday to answer questions about student safety for the public that have arisen because of the Capital Times reporting.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But for consumers, higher wages on paper do not appear to have eased the sting of rising prices, according to several recent surveys.
    Steve Kopack, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
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  • The last time this happened in the Championship before this season was 2013-14, when Derby, Middlesbrough, Bolton Wanderers, Wednesday and Yeovil Town all failed to win any of their first five home matches.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And while the end result was once again pretty anti-climactic, there were actually some other notable things happening in episode 5 of Survivor 49, so let’s make like Nate and MC on the sandbags and get to work.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • At the time, many bettors turned to social media to say that something shady occurred regarding prop bets involving his stats for that night.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The ebbs and flows of results will occur for any team, but the best coaches are those who keep any short-term slumps to a minimum.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Emerge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emerge. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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