emergent
Example Sentences
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Competition in the sector is clearly heating up although Flutter believes the growth opportunities and potential market are big enough to accommodate emergent players.
From MarketWatch
The phenomenon is known as emergent intelligence—when simple machines, following only a few local cues, begin to organize and act as if they share a mind.
As someone young enough to have witnessed Butler’s emergent days as a Nickelodeon and Disney Channel teen heartthrob firsthand, I’ll admit that I never quite understood the appeal.
From Salon
Yet in time, the cattle ranchers fell victim to the emergent boom-and-bust pattern of the Southern California economy.
From Los Angeles Times
The Reuters news agency reported that a planned event involving the ship in Vietnam was cancelled after what the US embassy in Hanoi called an "emergent operational requirement".
From BBC
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