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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 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 Almost 100,000 Russian troops have massed on the Ukrainian border, and intelligence analysts warn that an invasion could be immanent. Grayson Quay, The Week, 9 Jan. 2022 Around 95,000 Russian troops are massed on the Ukrainian border, and many intelligence analysts believe an invasion is immanent. Grayson Quay, The Week, 18 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immanent
Adjective
  • The diversity of approaches—from China's emphasis on computational speed to Google's focus on error correction and Microsoft's topological architecture—reflects different strategies for overcoming quantum computing's inherent challenges.
    Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • These rare, unmediated exchanges between everyday Chinese and Americans appeared to reflect the simple pleasures inherent to internet culture—cute kids, cats, and comedy.
    Mark Tseng-Putterman / Made by History, TIME, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In fact, gardening ranked among the top five activities that participants found most meaningful, which speaks to the deep, intrinsic satisfaction such hobbies bring.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The most important factor behind a player’s intrinsic value is their quality.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This number continues to increase every day, making social media a non-negotiable, integral part of any successful business strategy for companies who want to capture public attention and enter their markets fast.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Smart Home Integration Technology is an integral part of the modern luxury home.
    Rowan Briggs, Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Since 2014, the ACL Hall of Fame has honored artists who have played an essential role in the series’ half-century as a premier supporter of top-shelf music.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025
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“Immanent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immanent. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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