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English
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Adjective
emerging (comparative more emerging, superlative most emerging)
- 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
- present participle and gerund of emerge
Noun
emerging (plural emergings)
- 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 […]