materialize
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If AI tools fail to drive the hoped-for efficiencies, corporate expenses will scale with revenue, and the projected margin benefits won’t materialize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
"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
If any of those consensus predictions for the second quarter don’t materialize, then he recommends a series of strategies to exploit markets that are wrong-footed.
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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Yet, when a convenient windfall materializes, analysts eagerly wave it through to boost the bottom line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Whether it gets made, he said, depends on whether the fund materializes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
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
I gape like a fish as Cook, as silent-footed as her mistress, materializes from behind the sheet I've just hung up.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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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
None of those solutions has so far materialized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
As helium supply tightened, industry observers said spot prices more than doubled early in the war on fears that shortages would disrupt the semiconductor industry—but the feared crunch never materialized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
“My bad,” Golly says from where he seems to have materialized beside me like some overgrown fairy.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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The Bank of Canada report found businesses and households remain stable, with fears of trade tensions and mortgage renewals not materializing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
He acknowledged the Fed “can’t bank on” productivity gains materializing, and said much work needs to be done to evaluate the AI impact before building policy around it.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Yoga was only just materializing on the fringes of American culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Doing so would penalize some software companies for expenses that may not end up materializing to such an extreme degree, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 21, 2026
As my avatar finished materializing, I looked down and realized that the floor I’d been standing on earlier was now gone.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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