immanent

Example Sentences

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Nonetheless, they worked within the existing social and political structure to bore new lines of flight out of it through a process of immanent critique.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024

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

Three spotted eagle rays, as exquisitely patterned as ocelots, glide side by side toward an immanent blackness, as indifferent to Vizl, it seems, as the limestone wall is to the climber.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2019

In later works, light is more complex, more immanent to the scene.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2019

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

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