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 Newcastle’s summer wobbled when news emerged in late June that Guimaraes was fixed on Arsenal. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026 The honeypot sites of royal Rajasthan—spliced by the brown slopes of the Aravalli Range, the state emerged after Partition from a mosaic of 22 feudal kingdoms—are so many people’s taster to India. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026 Existing payment rails have been slow and expensive for a long time, which is one reason alternatives emerged. — Manny Khan, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026 But a strange pattern has emerged in rpTDES; each successive flare can become dimmer. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Madrid became an important center of production, and by the 18th century, Valencia had emerged as the Spanish fan-making capital. — ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026 The rapper emerged on the stage at Scotiabank Arena for a mini-set midway through Toliver’s performance. — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026 The company emerged in 2021 as a spin-out linked to research at the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS). — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026 Early the next morning, Lopez emerged from the apartment with the lower half of his face covered with black fabric. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

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Galliano was fired by Christian Dior in 2011 after video footage surfaced showing the designer, who was inebriated, making antisemitic remarks in a Paris bar, La Perle.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026
The claim that Islam doesn’t really count as a religion surfaced early and explicitly in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

— Asma Uddin, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026

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The fourth-year pro with blazing speed had an impressive training camp and appeared to be one of the team’s main kick returners.

— Josh Kendall, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
During Copenhagen Fashion Week, the monochrome palette appeared on nearly every showgoer—a stark contrast to the week’s historically maximalist approach.

— Laura Jackson, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026

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