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emergent

adjective as in resulting

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The American security establishment remains in a “Cold War mentality” where it focuses on tracking ballistic missiles and fast jets instead of emergent threats like drones and these objects.

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Serving as an introduction to an engaging new artistic voice, the film captures a certain laconic, free-floating malaise and anxiety that are indicative of an emergent generational sensibility.

"The physics perspective changes when you have so many particles together," Tu said, noting that quantum information science is a tool to describe the statistical or emergent behavior of the whole system.

The Drug Enforcement Administration issued a notice of intent to add protonitazene and another emergent “nitazene” drug to the Controlled Substances Act as Schedule I narcotics only two months ago.

A way to look at emergent behavior — the coordinated and mesmerizing flight of a flock of birds, for instance.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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