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materialize

[muh-teer-ee-uh-lahyz] / məˈtɪər i əˌlaɪz /


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Ambitious plans by PayPal’s past two CEOs had also failed to materialize.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

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

But I knew that if he wanted to talk to me, he’d probably just materialize in my room.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

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 if the box-office falloff materializes as expected, the film is still expected to be a success for Universal.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

Even if a peace deal eventually materializes, the oil price isn’t likely to fall back to levels seen before the war.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

“The Forsytes” is a clunky visual feast, but it’s also a new hot dish in an expanding buffet of eat-the-rich takes that materializes what one imagines a serialized adaptation of Gentlemen’s Quarterly would look like.

From Salon Mar. 28, 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

Such lines of business have not yet materialized.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Flipping through them three decades on, she realized what made dELiA*s and its ilk so different from the other mail-order catalogs that materialized every few months in her family’s mail pile like L.L.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Baker meticulously traces these changes as they materialized in art, literature, and the ledgers and letters of Italian merchants.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Everything old is new again: In 1996, Anaheim pitched a youth sports center called the “Little A” in part of the stadium parking lots as part of a ballpark village that never materialized.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

A familiar setting materialized out of the darkness.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Support is also materializing among state-owned enterprises, with actual orders placed, MS adds in a research note.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

The same-store sales streak and the new customers are a signal that the brand’s turnaround is materializing, Jefferies analyst Corey Tarlowe said in a note on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch Jun. 2, 2026

“At the moment, we think the chances of this deal materializing are probably remote,” they write.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

Airline mergers have been notoriously difficult to complete in recent years, and while it isn’t impossible, UBS analysts said the chances of a deal materializing “are probably remote.”

From Barron's Apr. 14, 2026

I think I might expire from happiness or something, because if it is him, my shiny, future self might be materializing before my eyes.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon




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