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  1. intransitive verb To rise from or as if from immersion: Sea mammals must emerge periodically to breathe.
  2. intransitive verb To come forth from obscurity: new leaders who may emerge.
  3. intransitive verb To become evident: The truth emerged at the inquest.
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  • What does emerge is the Hovhaness gift for diaphanously contrapuntal textures and hymnal, chorale themes that connect Eastern and Western modes and doxologies. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • When new revelations emerge, the Republicans 'credibility takes new hits. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • But the more details that emerge, the more it seems Treasury wants to work with only a select few companies. —  GuruFocus Updates
  • If no buyers emerge -- including the cities in question -- Haas said that MetroFi would have a shutdown plan for gradually unlighting the networks. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • Resolution = = = = = = = = = = All Gnumeric users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge -- sync —  SecuObs.com
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin ēmergere : ē-, ex-, ex- + mergere, to immerse.

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  1. = French émerger = Provencal emerger, = Spanish Portuguese emergir = Italian emergere, from Latin emergere, rise out, rise up, from e, out, + mergere, dip, merge: see merge.
 

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