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present participle of shape.

shaping

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formative adj.
making adj.
adjustment n.
art n.
assembly n.
making n.
molding n.

ADJECTIVE

formative

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developmental

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determinative sensitive

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immature impressible malleable moldable pliant susceptible

Antonyms

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destructive noninfluential

ADJECTIVE

making

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accomplishing building composing constructing creating effecting executing fabricating fashioning forging forming generating manufacturing originating producing

NOUN

adjustment

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alteration arrangement improvement modification readjustment regulation

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acclimation acclimatization balancing conformance fitting fixing mending ordering organization orientation redress regulating setting standardization turning

WEAK

correcting organizing repairing

NOUN

art

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design painting

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abstraction carving description illustration imitation modeling molding portrayal representation simulation symbolization

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pictorialization sculpting sketching

Antonyms

WEAK

lack science unskill

NOUN

assembly

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adjustment attachment building collection construction erection fabrication joining manufacture manufacturing modeling molding welding

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connecting fitting together piecing together setting up

NOUN

making

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formulation

STRONG

authoring building causation composition conception constituting construction contriving designing devising fabrication fancying fashioning forging occasioning origination performing planning producing production

Antonyms

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destruction ruin

NOUN

molding

Synonyms

STRONG

casting creating making modeling

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shaping

It is shaping up to be among the strongest in living memory, and its effects are already rippling around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Meta, alongside other social media apps, is under fire around the world as 2026 is shaping up to be a year of reckoning for the entire industry - perhaps our days of doomscrolling are numbered.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Owens isn’t just talking about short-term elections, but shaping her listeners’ world views, Spencer said.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Crucially, the company run by Jensen Huang sits at the center of much of the dealmaking that’s shaping the AI boom.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

One day she fussed because I hadn’t made her one, and so I stopped shaping the shaft for the waterwheel and went to work on the weather vane.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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