take shape
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As parts of these clouds collapse under gravity, they create dense regions known as molecular cloud cores where new stars begin to take shape.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
The theory began to take shape in the 1920s, when Georges Lemaître linked Edwin Hubble’s observations of receding galaxies with Alexander Friedmann’s earlier equations describing an expanding universe.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Improving technical setups are now raising the possibility that a broader recovery may be starting to take shape across several beaten-down medical device names.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
He began creating a seven-member boy group in 2010, but it took a few years for BTS, as we know it today, to take shape.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
An important consequence follows from this argument: we should not really expect to find reliable science before scientific communities began to take shape in the 1640s.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
