emerges

verb

present tense third-person singular of emerge
as in arises
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 emerges Prince Harry risks 'lobbing a grenade' at Prince William as chance to heal years-long feud emerges. — FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 The onscreen friction with Evans, who emerges as something of a villain, was also real. — Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026 What emerges is a picture of migratory birds that is both more complicated and more remarkable than the simple arrows pointing between breeding and wintering ranges on a map. — Amy L. Scarpignato, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026 Sensing can reveal more, and processing can reveal differently, without guaranteeing recognition of what emerges. — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Chuuraa Evgenia Arbugaeva (UK 2026, 18 min) A Sakha scientist journeys into Siberia’s melting permafrost, where the past emerges alongside ancestral beliefs. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026 And then there is Evans, who emerges as perhaps the biggest puzzle. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Sometimes understanding emerges precisely from the friction between competing claims. — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026 Onstage, in spooky eye makeup and a pink tie, another persona emerges. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 12 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emerges
  1. arises
  2. surfaces
  3. appears
  4. happens
  5. occurs
Verb
  • While no business can prepare for every possible disruption, planning ahead can help owners protect their company’s financial health when trouble arises.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The problem arises when the relationship changes but the assumptions surrounding it do not.
    — Murugan Anandarajan, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of arises
Verb
  • Manifest surfaces Machado’s team soon learned that information about one of the charter flights had circulated outside the group.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The value appears when the team actually surfaces, tests and integrates what different people know.
    — Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of surfaces
Verb
  • His critics see a president who failed to tame inflation and keep America out of overseas conflicts, and whose agenda has fueled higher prices as the war with Iran appears to be at a stalemate.
    — JOSH BOAK, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Two letters redirect actions MuTRAP is a backdoor attack, also known as a Trojan attack, in which malicious behavior is embedded in a model and activated only when a specific trigger appears.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of appears
Verb
  • For the technology leader responsible for keeping essential services running, these details provide a basis for assessing what protections exist and what happens in an extreme scenario.
    — Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The conversational layer may be what a borrower sees, but the difficult work happens deeper in the stack, where documents, rules, calculations, decisions, and transaction states have to remain connected.
    — Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of happens
Verb
  • However, its point of greatest eclipse occurs just a few miles from Thebes, the magnificent religious and political capital of ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Consequently, even if a down cycle occurs, it is not expected to show the same sharp decline seen in the past.
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of occurs

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