immanent

Example Sentences

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God, however defined or understood, is immanent in all things, which is why we must look so directly at the world, even when the world indicts us for being terrible tenants.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022

Many live together in agricultural cooperatives, where they prepare for the immanent apocalypse that, they believe, will restore the communal agrarian society of the Inca empire.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2020

In the summer of 1914, each of the great powers reached the conclusion that war was inevitable, and that trying to stay out of the immanent conflict would lead to national decline.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

What allows us to be in awe of a thing or moment that seems eternal or immanent?

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017

If you mean “inherent,” “present,” or “dwelling within,” the word is the rarely heard immanent.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner