emergence

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But don't expect me to believe that the emergence is anything of God.

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  1. noun The act or process of emerging.
  2. noun A superficial outgrowth of plant tissue, such as the prickle of a rose.

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  • They're all likely to happen, but all have some way to go before their tipping point, so the timeframe for their emergence is highly speculative. —  Ethical Technology
  • So, you consider that the present Chinese world emergence is a kind of re-emergence, a path to a return to the balance of power before the mid-19th century?
  • Most herbicides will be applied peri-emergence, and with blackgrass already emerging from depth and from around clods, they will be tank-mixed with —  FWi - All News
  • But don't expect me to believe that the emergence is anything of God. —  A Little Leaven
  • Each meeting in the Emergence & Convergence series brings together a group of speakers to address a topic of strong current interest and one which has elements both of new advances in the field - 'emergence' - and a developing consensus on the importance and integration of the new advances with existing understanding - 'convergence'. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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  1. = French émergence = Spanish Portuguese emergencia = Italian emergenza; from Latin emergen(t-)s, present participle: see emergent, adjective
 

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/əˈmərdʒəns/
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