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Recent Examples of emergent This adds to an emergent trend, as the seven worst-performing Marvel films in their second weeks of release all came out after Avengers: Endgame. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2025 For the Ducks, he’s shared the net with emergent force Lukáš Dostál, a RFA to be whose extension will be a high late-season or offseason priority. Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2025 When fear, exhaustion, or resignation crowds out citizens’ commitment to democracy, emergent authoritarianism begins to take root. Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025 Mahler-Werfel admired Gropius’s architectural talent but had little sympathy for the hyper-objectivity of the emergent Bauhaus movement. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for emergent

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“Emergent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emergent. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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