How to Use emergent in a Sentence

emergent

1 of 2 adjective
  • Other parts of it are just emergent.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2026
  • From there, Stamp's emergent screen career was off to the races.
    — Ryan Coleman Updated, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • 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 city also lacked a war room to triage emergent cases—a gap that soon proved glaring.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 23 June 2021
  • Apply the pre-emergent each spring and late summer for control all year.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Pre-emergent weed controls only stop new weeds growing from seed.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Most pre-emergent herbicides need to be watered in.
    — Larry Figart, Florida Times-Union, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Another emergent theme is the ready-to-drink can that doubles as a mixer.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2021
  • This product contains a pre-emergent herbicide that lasts for up to six months.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
  • On the side of emergent intelligence, a few points are worth making.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Spread granular pre-emergent over the surface of moist soil, avoiding the plant and its base.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
  • For me, that’s in emergent or medium-density grass lines, so my rod of choice will reflect that.
    — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The self is simply an emergent property of our entire brain.
    — Masud Husain, Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026
  • DéLana was an artist in both traditional and emergent forms.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Maybe space and time are emergent from some more abstract phenomenon.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Apply pre-emergent now to keep these weed seeds from germinating.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • What happens if its testing missed a risky emergent behavior?
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • To be a browser was arguably the defining pastime of the emergent middle class.
    — Suzannah Showler, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In most of the South for winter weeds, aim to get your pre-emergent down sometime in late summer to mid-fall.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This is pre-emergent weed control combined with a light amount of fertilizer.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2022
  • String theory is not the only idea that suggests spacetime is emergent.
    — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • This is a situation where inflation is now an emergent risk … and gold is the only game in town.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • This is the biggest emergent social movement in all of history.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Some of those roles were for emergent bilinguals and special education.
    — Lacey Beasley, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • 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
  • The pre-emergent would inhibit the germination of the grass seedlings.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Apply pre-emergent weed control products.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Tensions arose as Lewis’s dazzling playing and emergent showmanship pushed him to the top of the bill.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022

emergent

2 of 2 noun
  • From there, Stamp's emergent screen career was off to the races.
    — Ryan Coleman Updated, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Taylor said a pre-emergent isn’t an option in public lands, but that spot treating stands will help keep it in check.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 26 Mar. 2020
  • This suggests that some emergent properties might also be used to reduce bias.
    — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But beyond those few and far between emergent moments, the game is genuinely boring.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
  • But behind that image of success and access, Kapoor’s emergent empire was in free fall.
    — Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Apply a pre-emergent, like Preen, around the bushes to keep down the weeds until mulch is reapplied in late May. Hot temperatures will require a regular watering program and Kentucky rain is never enough.
    — Janet Miller, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2018
  • It's also been praised for its emergent storytelling, with actions from the community helping shape the overall story of the game.
    — Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
  • Granular pre-emergents need at least one-half inch of water right after application to penetrate the top layer of lawn soil where the weed seeds are waiting.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Pre-emergents must be applied before soil temperatures reach 50-55°F.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
  • There’s no shared leadership, no emergent norms, no psychological safety—but also no fear or status dynamics holding them back.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His criticisms managed to say what everyone has been thinking throughout 2023 about this emergent technology.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The Paley Center for Media has refreshed its board of trustees with newly-emergent power players from the entertainment and tech business.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
  • Researchers looked at data including more than 1 million patients who underwent one out of 25 possible common elective or emergent surgeries.
    — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 30 Aug. 2023
  • True revolution isn't prescriptive goals but emergent ecosystems prioritizing users over profits, agility over control.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Learn when to apply post emergent herbicides based on plant biology and best practices to minimizing undesirable impacts on the environment.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Wozniak’s hot drink test is one perspective in the kaleidoscopic discussion over the concept of AGI and emergent behaviors.
    — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Pre-emergents are also less problematic to use than post-emergent weed killers that can accidentally kill desirable ornamental plants, grasses, and vegetables.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In the spring, apply the pre-emergents for crabgrass, grassburs and other summer grassy annuals about two weeks prior to the average date of your last killing freeze for your part of the state, with a follow-up treatment 90 days later.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Heiple noted that her experience siting energy projects, translating complex regulatory requirements, and keeping track of emergent industry trends, will serve her well in her new role.
    — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • At Factory Made, an emergent reading series named after Andy Warhol’s star-making studio, theatrics and personae count as much as poetry and prose.
    — Mariella Rudi, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • Then, in 2021, an emergent technology ushered Wood — and thousands of recording professionals like him — into an unexpected boom time.
    — Bob Mehr, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • Reactive transformation happens in response to emergent challenges that could disrupt existing business operations.
    — Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • More broadly, however, conversations on emergent technologies should focus on value systems and improved literacy, said Churchill, which will enhance human oversight.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 8 Dec. 2025
  • In the last few years, myriad experiments have shown, for example, that large language models, trained only on text, can produce emergent behaviors like solving simple arithmetic problems or generating computer code.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This emergent technosphere, as Duke University professor emeritus Peter Haff calls it, can be considered an outgrowth of the biosphere.
    — Jan Zalasiewicz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
  • As regulatory initiatives like the EU’s Green Deal take effect, companies must ensure that their outsourcing providers comply with emergent standards.
    — Vidya Plainfield, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • Getty Images Women's sport and women's health enter 2026 not as emergent verticals but as structural components of a global economy under strain.
    — Priya Oberoi, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Variation in school-level budgets will be allocated based on enrollment, with additional resources for schools with emergent needs, said Mike Sitkowski, the district’s chief budget officer.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
  • The middle-generation experience, the bidirectional mourning that comes of being split between the vanishing and the emergent, preoccupies Transcription.
    — Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Stanton’s disdain for immigrants led her into emergent realms of pseudoscience that would transform into eugenics; her rhetoric about women strayed from the principle of gender equality into essentialist ideas about women’s feminine specialness.
    — Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026

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