emerging

Definition of emergingnext
present participle of emerge

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of emerging That disposition, building inside a system with no certainty of outcome, is what every emerging market requires from the people inside it who are not yet famous enough to wait. Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Wood has started every game for the Nationals this season, emerging as an MVP candidate for the Nats. Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 More than 80 years after the end of World War II, one of Europe’s largest wartime graveyards is once again emerging from the water. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026 Other galleries run the gamut from emerging to midsize, and are located across the city’s gallery districts, including Chelsea, Tribeca, the Lower East Side, and the Upper East Side. Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Beijing’s goal is to lead a coalition of emerging economies as a supplier of open-source AI models, locking them into its technological and industrial ecosystems, and generating dependencies. Andy Browne, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2026 In 2009, after completing a master’s degree in social media and emerging platforms, Hyder, 41, founded Zen Media, a marketing agency that grew from an indie startup into a global B2B marketing and PR agency. Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emerging
Verb
  • Participants agree to release and hold harmless Company, the Podcast and Podcast hosts from any claims arising out of participation in the Competition or the acceptance or use of any prize.
    The Athletic, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Much of the industry’s waste stems from fast-fashion business models and consumer habits rather than solely arising from the materials used for clothing themselves.
    Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • They were built for infrastructure, surfacing server-side signals after the fact.
    Jim Douglas, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • In the hours that followed, footage of the panicked scenes that followed began surfacing on social media.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026
Verb
  • Don’t expect cinematic mega-floods or massive storms happening simultaneously all around the world every day for the next year.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • This adoption is happening while the American open-weight bench thins out.
    Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Smoke from the #WoodsideFire is expected to continue to flow into the North Bay valleys with the peak transport occurring in the afternoon and evening hours.
    Tim Fang, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • Crime has been down considerably across the city this year, despite several high-profile events occurring in recent months.
    Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026

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“Emerging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emerging. Accessed 6 Aug. 2026.

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