- present tense form of develop (3rd person singular).
develops
Example Sentences
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Turing develops autonomous-driving software for cars and robotaxis rather than making those vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
As the brain develops, it leaves impressions on the surrounding bone, so those preserved structures can provide important evidence about the way an extinct animal processed information from its surroundings.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
These are likely to be updated by the UK Health Security Agency in the coming days as a widespread heatwave develops.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
He heads a unit that operates the kind of ground drones that Trotsenko develops in his garage.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
At age forty, approximately one woman in a thousand develops breast cancer each year, whereas at age sixty the rate has risen to one in five hundred.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
