emergence
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What Anthropic calls a “modest” scenario would play out something like the emergence of the internet—driving real gains, but gradually, and within what they call “the historical norm for new technologies.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Labour MP for Portsmouth North, Amanda Martin, said the "emergence" of the route across the Channel taken in Sunday's crossing was "deeply worrying for my city".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Now, a study published in Current Biology suggests these unusual formations may also preserve clues to another major event in Earth's history: the emergence of complex life.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
But the series might never have come to fruition were it not for the way “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” heralded the emergence of a major new American dramatist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
What had happened at Nairobi Hospital was an isolated emergence, a microbreak of a rain-forest virus with unknown potential to start an explosive chain of lethal transmission in the human race.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies said it was "a landmark step forward for Wales" with the climate and nature emergences "intensifying around us".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Every time periodical cicadas arrive in the United States, they bring a sense of wonder with them — their long intervals underground and their perfectly timed mass emergences are fascinating, even to experts.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024
Why wouldn’t we add cicada emergences to the bucket list?
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2024
But scientists are warning that early cicada emergences could become more frequent as climate change ushers in earlier springs and longer periods of warmth.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 5, 2023
Three minutes later, the control tower picked up two emergences at a light-second and a half, a thousand or so miles apart.
From Space Viking by H. Beam Piper
Vocabulary lists containing emergence
Evolutionary Biology - Adaptation
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Content Summary 4.7: Early Modern Western Society and Culture
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Content Summary 1.3: Origins of Complex Urban Societies in the Ancient World
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