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noun

emergence

CEFR B2

the gradual beginning or coming forth

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Six example sentences with emergence, each labelled with its topic.

  • The emergence of a middle class in the port cities changed what local factories chose to manufacture within a decade.

    Economics

  • Biologists filmed the emergence of the cicadas, seventeen years underground reduced to a single humid week above ground.

    Science

  • The emergence of photography pushed painters toward color and gesture rather than the careful likeness patrons once demanded.

    Art

  • The emergence of cheap sensors turned a rare research tool into something farmers now bolt onto every irrigation pump.

    Technology

  • The emergence of a reliable third scorer took pressure off the two stars during the long February road swing.

    Basketball

  • Historians trace the emergence of bebop to late-night sessions in Harlem clubs where the tempos kept climbing.

    Music

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