The WORD survivor suggests someone who has emerged ALIVE from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day CONFERENCE in EARLY June at Boston College.

In a SENSE, MASS incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme FORM of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. RATHER than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse.

The 'beach read' has BECOME such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been AROUND. In fact, the TERM only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book TRADE publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'

Christianity emerged from the RELIGION of ISRAEL. Or rather, it has as its background a PERSISTENT strain in that religion. To that strain CHRISTIANS have looked BACK, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

Cyber-enabled theft of trade SECRETS by state actors in China has emerged as a MAJOR threat to our ECONOMIC and, thus, NATIONAL SECURITY.

I'd LIKE to EVENTUALLY be KNOWN as SOMEONE who emerged as a SONGWRITER.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading STAR of the PROGRESSIVE WRITERS who emerged in undivided INDIA.

When he emerged Lou Dobbs the POPULIST, he was so HARD to peg. A mishmash of CONTRADICTIONS: anti-outsourcing, anti-globalization, pro-international-trade, pro-free-enterprise, anti-corporatism, PRO-CHOICE, pro-Second AMENDMENT, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gays-serving-openly-in-the-military, pro-military, anti-war-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan.

With 'The KEEP,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the GOTHIC realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged feeling that the gothic GENRE is all about hyperconnectedness - the possibility of disembodied communication - and that we now live in a KIND of permanently gothic state.

And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the WORLD in one direction while we move in ANOTHER direction, and do we want to backslide into an ERA that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear WEAPON for every tactical MISSION?

'The Royals' has emerged as a breakout SERIES that has become one of E NETWORK's HIGHEST rated shows.

I've learned powerful lessons about the nature of forgiveness from human RIGHTS defenders. For example, for the GREATER GOOD of his COUNTRY, Kofi WOODS emerged from a torture chamber in Liberia to later defend the very men who had brutalized him.

Out of suffering have emerged the STRONGEST SOULS; the most MASSIVE characters are seared with SCARS.

I went to grad SCHOOL with the grand PLAN of getting my Ph.D. and WRITING weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a SERIES of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named SPIES during the Napoleonic wars.