Thesaurus results for EMERGED

emerged

verb

past tense of emerge

as in surfaced

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly problems emerged almost as soon as the contractor began the excavation for the swimming pool

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Recent Examples of emerged Shohei Ohtani emerged from the visiting dugout at American Family Field with a bat in his hand, and the mass of media members scattered in foul territory up the third-base line shifted his way, pulled by the magnetic force that is Ohtani’s stardom. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 Olive green emerged at Tibi, Joseph, and Acne Studios, offering a welcome alternative to the burgundy and chocolate brown that dominated previous seasons. — Camila Quimper, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026 Disagreements emerged among the group on how to define the Harlem Renaissance and whether its legacy would continue or be lost. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 Formidable force The Southern Giants, known in Arabic as Alwiya al-Amaliqa, emerged in southern Yemen in 2015 during the country’s civil war. — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026 The documentary chronicles the women’s theater troupe that emerged in San Francisco in the 1970s and ‘80s. — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 In this instance, though, rather than simply tapping into a viral internet personality, Chanel brought a story that had emerged organically from its own cultural footprint into the real world. — Amy Francombe, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2026 Fairshake, which emerged as a kingmaker last election cycle, said just three members from each party would receive $1 million ahead of November. — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2026 Officers emerged from that coup as the architects of the new state and cast themselves as the custodians of its national interest. — Abdelrahman Elgendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026

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By Wednesday, reporting surfaced that Zacharia sat for the California bar exam after graduating from Pepperdine University’s law school in 2011, but did not pass.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
But complications surfaced in June 2024, when a prosecutor uncovered that a deputy chief assistant at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office’s legal division had filled out a death penalty waiver form in Morris’ case.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026

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In September, every ward in Sylhet's 100-bed Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital, which is treating measles, appeared overwhelmed.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
The migration of working-class and Hispanic voters toward Trump in 2024, which now appeared to be swinging back to the Democrats in the midterms, suggested an underlying instability.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

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