Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As occasion demands; on emergence; by emergency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
emergent manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And now to attach the emergently celebrated name of 'Facebook' to that of a company whose actions at a time when the country needed financial help and vision rather chose to profit heedlessly is profoundly sad.
Raymond J. Learsy: Facebook and Goldman Sachs Raymond J. Learsy 2011
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Sims was called upon to care emergently for a white woman who fell from her horse and who was in great pelvic pain.
The Invention of the Sims Speculum - Surgical Improvisation aka TBTAM 2009
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She wouldn't get any surgery, and she is going to need emergently, so they try to exhaust all the capabilities of the military trying to find a neurosurgeon and simply could not find one that would come in time.
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The most common cause of such a course would be bleeding in the brain from a subdural, or, more emergently, an epidural hematoma.
Be On Alert 2009
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As it turned out, the surgery was not emergently needed after all.
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"Making the actual raw CAD files available under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license is a brilliant first step that clearly and legally allows others to emergently build upon VIA's open innovation."
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Well thank goodness -- I feel better knowing that she could tap that fund any time she feels that an animal freeway overpass emergently needs putting-up in someplace like, say, Ephrata, WA.
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"Making the actual raw CAD files available under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license is a brilliant first step that clearly and legally allows others to emergently build upon VIA's open innovation."
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Adult circumcision required urgently or emergently for things like phimosis (a "stuck" foreskin that can't be retracted) or a paraphimosis (a foreskin stuck in the retracted position) is a huge undertaking compared to the two minute procedure for a neonate.
Neonatal Circumcision (Controversy? Who, Moi?) 1 Dinosaur 2007
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Circumcision is never required “urgently or emergently” to resolve phimosis.
Neonatal Circumcision (Controversy? Who, Moi?) 1 Dinosaur 2007
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