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Recent Examples of immanent Clayface David Zaslav indicated that the Clayface movie is immanent in his statement celebrating Superman’s box office success obtained by THR. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 July 2025 Repatriation, while an immanent and continuous process, is often relegated to secondary status by state actors that prioritize state building, stabilization, early recovery, and reconstruction. Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025 Silently, austerely, his work seemed to prophesy a future state in which photography would colonize the immanent world and illusions overtake reality. Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023 Since then, the opera house – though in so many places the art form is dismissed as an elitist art form with little relevance to today’s challenges and mindsets – has emerged as an immanent pole of strength, support, and solace for a city living under the clouds of war and aggression. Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023 But Pynchon’s theory of history offers its own immanent critique. John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023 But the experience of becoming a parent, as Nabokov describes it in Speak, Memory, suggests a third possibility—one which, if interpreted correctly, is possible to verify empirically: that death and rebirth are immanent in life itself. Ryan Ruby, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022 Blackness in abstraction, as the curator Adrienne Edwards has written, is a more capacious and immanent model of artistic creation than many of our institutions can handle. Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022 Almost 100,000 Russian troops have massed on the Ukrainian border, and intelligence analysts warn that an invasion could be immanent. Grayson Quay, The Week, 9 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immanent
Adjective
  • This technology offers a proactive solution to counter espionage from foreign adversaries and fortify our national security by overcoming the inherent limitations of traditional systems.
    Michael Evanoff, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Committing to a romantic relationship comes with the inherent risk of potential heartbreak if things don’t work out, but doing so can also lead to a lifetime of meaningful companionship.
    Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s something intrinsic about following that route from city to sea in a region where life and work and industry were dictated by the river for so long.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • From an intrinsic point of view, most of the Moon’s light is merely reflected light from the Sun.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Founders envisioned a Nation in which religious voices and views are integral to a vibrant public square and human flourishing and in which religious people and institutions are free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or hostility from the Government.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Stablecoins also serve as an integral part of AI adoption and expansion that has not yet been fully developed or discussed, even in the midst of wider interest and the advancement of various AI models; agentic AI.
    Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Gadsden State Community College and Chick-fil-A have teamed up to offer a training program that will equip participants with essential skills needed to land jobs in the restaurant and hospitality industry.
    Staff reports, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Replant Correct planting depth is essential when planting peony divisions.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Immanent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immanent. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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