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Recent Examples of immanent Repatriation, while an immanent and continuous process, is often relegated to secondary status by state actors that prioritize state building, stabilization, early recovery, and reconstruction. Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025 Silently, austerely, his work seemed to prophesy a future state in which photography would colonize the immanent world and illusions overtake reality. Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023 Since then, the opera house – though in so many places the art form is dismissed as an elitist art form with little relevance to today’s challenges and mindsets – has emerged as an immanent pole of strength, support, and solace for a city living under the clouds of war and aggression. Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023 Like the whale to the Inuit and the buffalo to the Lakota, the animal is at once everyday fact and sacred presence — not symbolically so, but in the sense that the sacred is immanent in all things, manifest in the world, in the land and the people of it. Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020 But Pynchon’s theory of history offers its own immanent critique. John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023 Blackness in abstraction, as the curator Adrienne Edwards has written, is a more capacious and immanent model of artistic creation than many of our institutions can handle. Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022 But the experience of becoming a parent, as Nabokov describes it in Speak, Memory, suggests a third possibility—one which, if interpreted correctly, is possible to verify empirically: that death and rebirth are immanent in life itself. Ryan Ruby, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022 The spiritual practices that kidnapped Africans carried with them to the United States affirmed the immanent presence of their ancestors. Ron Charles, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immanent
Adjective
  • Pounding the pavement to rummage for vintage treasure is inherent to unearthing the rare and one-of-a-kind pieces that celebrity stylists, editors, and fashion-loving brides-to-be seek her out for.
    Talia Abbas, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Similarly, companies that release forked AOSP products rarely use the main AOSP branch due to its inherent instability.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Kim adds that scientific knowledge has no intrinsic moral value.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The decision to sell is typically based on price movement rather than intrinsic value.
    True Tamplin, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In the 2½ seasons since that turnaround, Bryant has become an integral part of a group that has collected big moments to initiate a program about-face.
    Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Dan was an integral part of our organization for 35 seasons, and his work as executive producer of the Chiefs Radio Network helped bring the game to life for millions of listeners across Chiefs Kingdom.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
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    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2025

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“Immanent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immanent. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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