Definition of "emergences" [emergences]

• Plural form of emergence. (noun)

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• "Sometimes they came up for brief emergences, for gasping seconds in the sunshine on the surface, and then were under again, dragged under by him, rolled and tumbled under by the curling breakers."
• "Well, the scientists who have actually * studied* such things have reported the emergences of hundreds of new species both in nature and in the laboratory."
• "To any immense degree, elements of the above worldview are the deeply assumed givens of Western and not only Western culture- indeed, I think that humanism, secularism, and liberalism are by comparison deceptively fragile and shallow emergences against this moral and religious background, and largely in practice confined to youth, to urbanity, and to the arts and sciences."