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
They weren’t going to wait for promises that would probably never materialize.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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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A bright blue first-place ribbon materializes and becomes the perfect accessory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
If this price materializes, we would buy the at-the-money straddle at the close of trading on April 16, just before the earnings are announced.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 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
“If diplomatic progress materializes, gold could stabilize and recover progressively,” Exness’ Li Xing says in an email.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
This is what happens: A hovercraft marked with the Capitol’s seal materializes directly over the barricaded children.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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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
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
To the mate they seemed to have materialized out of thin air.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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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
The bond-market worry about rising prices is materializing on construction sites and on the shelves of home-improvement centers and hardware stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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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