emerge
/ɪˈmɜrdʒ/ v [I] (APPEAR)Definition
› to appear by coming out of something or out from behind something: The runway lights flashed on, and the first models emerged from behind the stage set. fig. The president emerged unscathed from the scandal (= He came out of it with no damage to his reputation). fig. We debated which of the candidate will emerge (= result) as the winner.
(Definition of emerge v (APPEAR) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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