materialize
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How hard he’s willing to push for that change will be an interesting story to follow should his speakership ever materialize.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026
Multiple setbacks and deadline extensions later, lithium has yet to materialize even as industry job training programs graduate students into careers that have not arrived in the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"For some of us, those threats have come very close, and all of us live with the knowledge that they may again materialize," Kagan, a liberal justice, told lawmakers in the House hearing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
In May, OpenAI was reported to be exploring legal action against Apple after the expected benefits from the deal failed to materialize.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
As I watch, power-ups materialize over the steel walls and along the edge of the lake’s waters, the colorful marbles lining the bridges both over and under.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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The El Niño climate pattern materializes erratically every two to seven years and can last up to a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Even those whose families migrated here seeking a “better life” can speak to how uneven the American dream materializes across class, race and country of origin.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Which brings the question back to what RevMed becomes if no deal materializes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Detection is the foundation: radar, radio-frequency sensing, acoustic systems and electro-optical cameras that establish airspace awareness before a threat materializes.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Such lines of business have not yet materialized.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The scale of that spending, funneled into data centers and chip purchases, has unsettled some investors who worry the AI payoff hasn’t yet materialized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The deal was supposed to help him secure a Trump pardon after a federal gun case, but the pardon never materialized, and Boosie is now trying to recover part of the money through arbitration.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
But that job, which never materialized, was not going to be as a recruiter, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
A figure materialized, sitting opposite her where Badwa should have been.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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“At the moment, we think the chances of this deal materializing are probably remote,” they write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Their reply: the move “cost a few percentage points at the U.S. index level – a fair price to avoid a far costlier downside scenario materializing from worsening supply disruptions.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
Airline mergers have been notoriously difficult to complete in recent years, and while it’s not impossible, UBS analysts said the chances of a deal materializing “are probably remote.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
Yoga was only just materializing on the fringes of American culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
I think of them glowing in the dark, with a lurid sulfur-yellow light; I think of curling wisps of mist coming out of them and materializing on top of my bureau.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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