emergent

A way to look at emergent behavior — the coordinated and mesmerizing flight of a flock of birds, for instance.

These are features that California daydreams are made of, and this emergent scene is luring visitors to an outpost 70 miles southeast of downtown San Diego.

The emergent Tea Party movement of the Obama years was fertile ground for the growth of modern Republicanism’s premodern turn under Donald Trump.

"A lot of yarn isn't very stretchy, yet once knit into a fabric, the fabric exhibits emergent elastic behavior," Singal said.

"When emergent issues or threats come about, we need to be able to understand them."