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
Bear is overcome by the spell and emerges from the bathroom smiling—for one blissful moment, the two share the same deranged love.
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Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Whoever emerges faces a difficult path to the governor's office.
—ABC News, 19 May 2026
As time passes, camp life emerges as a social trial for our heroine.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Meaning emerges through ritual, drift, and return to form a meditation on the fragility of existence.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 May 2026
This affects her professional life, but a bigger worry emerges from the shadows.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
In real estate markets shaped by limited supply and shifting conditions, outcomes are often determined by timing, preparation, and the ability to respond quickly when opportunity emerges.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 13 May 2026
Off-piste, freestyling, reacting to whatever picture emerges.
—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 12 May 2026
Then Hogan, 38, emerges with a sparkly nude-colored dress with matching heels.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Whoever emerges faces a difficult path to the governor's office.
—ABC News, 19 May 2026
As time passes, camp life emerges as a social trial for our heroine.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Meaning emerges through ritual, drift, and return to form a meditation on the fragility of existence.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 May 2026
This affects her professional life, but a bigger worry emerges from the shadows.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
In real estate markets shaped by limited supply and shifting conditions, outcomes are often determined by timing, preparation, and the ability to respond quickly when opportunity emerges.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 13 May 2026
Off-piste, freestyling, reacting to whatever picture emerges.
—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 12 May 2026
Then Hogan, 38, emerges with a sparkly nude-colored dress with matching heels.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emerges
Verb
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The same problem arises with generational generalizations.—
Alex Cooper,
Fortune,
16 May 2026
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The problem arises when anger becomes a fixation and gets out of control.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
Verb
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As my son indignantly showed me, Prodigy surfaces multiple-choice questions in between cartoon-monster attacks.—
Will Oremus,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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The system also surfaces items a customer usually orders but forgot to mention — reducing the leakage that happens when a store’s shelf label goes missing or a product gets moved.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 May 2026
Verb
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That rejection story appears in Bridges’s memoir for older students, Through My Eyes, not in the picture books.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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But with Spytek and head coach Klint Kubiak expressing their desire to not play a young quarterback right away, the veteran Cousins appears in the driver’s seat to start Week 1.—
Sam Warren,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
Verb
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The drama happens, and then life goes on.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Little happens other than chain-smoking, costume changes and interminable shots of color-shifting strobe lighting splaying across the cast’s cheekbones.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
Verb
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Person-to-person spread occurs via contact with bodily fluids and symptoms can develop between two and 21 days—though most often eight to 10 days—after an exposure.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
18 May 2026
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Instead of teaching founders how to pitch investors, education should focus on the process to find the strategic fit and skills to scale operations before dilution occurs or to avoid VC entirely.—
Dileep Rao,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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“Emerges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emerges. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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