emerging

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emerging (comparative more emerging, superlative most emerging)

  1. Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
    • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
      America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

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Verb

emerging

  1. present participle and gerund of emerge

Noun

emerging (plural emergings)

  1. Emergence.
    • 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection:
      We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district []
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