1
as in emerging
to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly
no information regarding the stolen car has surfaced since the police found it abandoned on a country road
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2
as in rising
to penetrate the surface (as of water) from below
a submarine surfaced on the starboard side of the aircraft carrier
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Recent Examples of surfacing
With rumors swirling about head coaching vacancies in college football, Mississippi's Lane Kiffin has been a name surfacing quite a bit.
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Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
What concerns are surfacing among your clientele?
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Bodies keep surfacing — and so do questions.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Israel essentially cut Barghouti off the outside world, his photos and videos only surfacing every few years.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for surfacing
Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
What concerns are surfacing among your clientele?
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Bodies keep surfacing — and so do questions.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Israel essentially cut Barghouti off the outside world, his photos and videos only surfacing every few years.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for surfacing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surfacing
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Super Leaders not only embrace emerging technology but leverage it for both their own growth as well as the growth of their team.—
Kelly Jones,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Material World is a weekly roundup of innovations and ideas within the materials sector, covering news from emerging biomaterials and alternative leathers to sustainable substitutes and future-proof fibers.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Nov. 2025
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However, Starbucks has struggled in recent years, along with other Western companies that have lost ground to local rivals amid rising nationalism and reluctance to pay premiums for foreign brands.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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Flocks of snow buntings skitter across the sand, rising in confetti clouds.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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On smaller scales, stars, gas, radiation, feedback, and other effects arising from the physics of normal matter play an enormously important role, and simulations are still improving.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
23 Oct. 2025
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In particular, this history suggests that when each side views the other as an existential threat, maintaining political power becomes the greatest imperative—which only increases the likelihood of authoritarian solutions arising as a result.—
Time,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Helm can’t see into the growling squawking forest to know what’s occurring in there.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The warning forecasts sustained surface winds, or frequent gusts, in the range of 34 knots (39 mph) to 47 knots (54 mph), either predicted or occurring, and not directly associated with a tropical cyclone, the NWS glossary explains.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Gossip blogs on the Housewives have become an entire cottage industry, and that’s a far more likely explanation as to why this tends to keep happening.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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What happened to us at this company is happening at another company in another sector.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Her work in music was limited to occasionally singing at church and appearing on a 1987 album by San Francisco band, Zero.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
3 Nov. 2025
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Meanwhile, Ladd was amassing dozens of television credits, appearing on such series as The Detectives, Naked City, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, Hazel, The Fugitive, Ironside and Then Came Bronson.—
Chris Koseluk,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Surfacing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surfacing. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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