Thesaurus results for EMERGING

emerging

verb

present participle of emerge

as in arising

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 emerging According to Elliot Payne, the Minneapolis City Council president, the dysfunction only looks bad because Minneapolis is emerging from an unprecedented united front against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Operation Metro Surge. —

Esme Murphy, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026 The two formed the starting cornerback tandem after emerging as signees late before last season. —

David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026 At the same time, reports are emerging of some commercial traffic transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic chokepoint between Iran and Oman through which 20% of the world’s oil exports and 80% of Iran’s oil exports travel. —

Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026 While details remain limited, the company’s comments suggest that its gigafactories could evolve beyond car production into multipurpose hubs for next-generation technologies, with humanoid robots emerging as a key focus in the years ahead. —

Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for emerging

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Demetra Henderson-Burkhalter, meanwhile, had also exchanged many calls with a New Orleans man named Cornelius Garrison III, who had been a plaintiff in a lawsuit arising from a truck collision in 2015 and had been listed as a witness to another collision in 2014.

— Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
In 2023, Eric Tennant — from Bridgeport, West Virginia — was diagnosed with stage 4 cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive cancer arising from the bile ducts that had spread throughout his body.

— Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026