emergent
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An emergent field of research in the last 15 years has focused on the era of the “prison bust,” when prison closures have outnumbered prison openings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
He laid the basis for Conservatives to dominate British politics from 1886 to 1997, as his successors adapted to an emergent mass culture and wider suffrage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Arguably war, especially in its modern version, is an emergent phenomenon triggered by a host of factors, but not by some genetic impulse we can’t be rid of.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
Meta evidently is continuing to allocate capital to back its AI ambitions as the emergent technology dominates much of the conversation around the hyperscaler.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
He leaned toward them and said, “In object-oriented programming, discrete software objects interfaced more freely, in a system of corporate service provision that mirrored the emergent structures of late capitalism.”
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
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