emergent

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“To frame the discussion, 25 to 30 years ago, the key emergent risk was corporate credit risk,” he said, noting out that the U.S. federal government “actually ran some surpluses then.”

From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026

The monitor Netblocks said on Tuesday that "traffic on select platforms points to an emergent strategy of whitelisting", in which selected users, entities or services are allowed to bypass restrictions.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

In that period, less severe medical diagnoses can become more emergent.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2026

Frontier AI systems are exhibiting emergent psychological properties nobody explicitly trained them to have.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

As a result, small changes at a lower level of organization can lead to emergent changes at a higher level.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond