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Recent Examples of immanent 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immanent
Adjective
  • There are inherent risks in using these tools.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Bitcoin’s inherent technical strengths, combined with institutions’ vested interest in its success, position it to evolve into essential infrastructure that powers global markets.
    Luke Xie, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • These children are more likely to develop a strong intrinsic locus of control, which leaves them less vulnerable to anxiety and depression later in life.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement No—provided that the money is not the point, provided that what matters to one’s work as a philosopher is intrinsic, not instrumental.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Importantly, the company’s technology, which includes materials used for the actual polishing and etching (lithography) of chips, as well as advanced packaging and thermal solutions, is integral for the development of leading-edge chips.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
  • For the young actors who played the von Trapp children, making the film was a truly integral core memory of their youth.
    Scott Huver, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Such knowledge is essential for designing safer storage strategies for nuclear and industrial waste in the coming centuries.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Given that the host cities for next year’s World Cup stretch from Vancouver to Mexico City, adapting to different climates will be essential.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Immanent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immanent. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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