Coming out East, meeting and joining (8)

I believe the answer is:

emerging

'coming out' is the definition.
('emerge' can be a synonym of 'come out')

'east meeting and joining' is the wordplay.
'east' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'meeting and joining' becomes 'merging' (merge means to join).
'e'+'merging'='EMERGING'

(Another definition for emerging that I've seen is " Coming into view".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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