How to Use emergent in a Sentence

emergent

adjective

• The law is the law, and this outlaw of the emergent video age must serve a short jail term for his offense.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• The sixth episode of the season is a detour into the life of emergent fan-favorite Willie Jack.
  — Kali Simmons, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2021
• If their heart is not pumping, then start emergent CPR.
  — Christopher Desimone, M.d., Ph.d. Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The city also lacked a war room to triage emergent cases—a gap that soon proved glaring.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 23 June 2021
• To be a browser was arguably the defining pastime of the emergent middle class.
  — Suzannah Showler, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• The only way to beat the invasive seed bank would be to use a pre-emergent herbicide.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2022
• Tensions arose as Lewis’s dazzling playing and emergent showmanship pushed him to the top of the bill.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
• As an example, think about an emergent threat in space.
  — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
• Another emergent theme is the ready-to-drink can that doubles as a mixer.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2021
• And with Russia once again an emergent enemy, the CIA has scrambled to catch up.
  — Robert Baer, Time, 21 May 2022
• There is much more to be said on this question of the emergent values of the next cohort of academics, of course, and much that remains unclear.
  — Michael Bérubé, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
• On the side of emergent intelligence, a few points are worth making.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• Yet accounting for emergent space is only half the job.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
• And given the potency of the Bears’ and Cyclones’ ground games, the emergent Ford looks like a potential stretch-run X-factor.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Oct. 2021
• This product contains a pre-emergent herbicide that lasts for up to six months.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
• There is no post-emergent control that is safe for St. Augustine.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2022
• The gaps between young and old on emergent cultural issues today are no larger than gaps in the past.
  — Bobby Duffy, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• As the new year takes shape, celebrities are fast-establishing the emergent style codes and silhouettes of 2023.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2023
• Around the same time, Ray was alert to emergent trends in post-minimalist performance art.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
• The initial emergent nature of her mother’s condition subsides, but the need for care does not.
  — Anna Altman, The New Republic, 26 July 2022
• Pre-emergent weed controls only stop new weeds growing from seed.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 16 Apr. 2022
• This is the biggest emergent social movement in all of history.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 28 Mar. 2023
• Maybe space and time are emergent from some more abstract phenomenon.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• String theory is not the only idea that suggests spacetime is emergent.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
• This is pre-emergent weed control combined with a light amount of fertilizer.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
• Apply pre-emergent now to keep these weed seeds from germinating.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2022
• Mucho Poncho Like a blanket to go, the poncho returns for resort, offering all the comforts of home for a re-emergent world.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 20 July 2021
• About 10% of non-emergent, pre-scheduled procedures at the hospital were delayed this week.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
• The non-emergent care, Express Care Warwick, will also be open seven days a week— including evenings and weekends.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2021
• This line of reasoning led him to start thinking in terms of disability, the study of which was, in the nineties, still an emergent academic discipline.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024