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present participle of shape.

shaping

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

Synonyms

STRONG

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

Synonyms

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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

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casting creating making modeling

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Appeared in the June 16, 2026, print edition as 'The Forces Shaping American Views of Israel'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

Shaping up the crowd during the endless trailers, I spotted 10 other people with notebooks — no doubt fellow journalists and critics, ready to do their jobs.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

Shaping Demogorgon, detail by detail, was like "making a clay sculpture," he said.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

Shaping its internal structure requires extremely high temperatures, which is why steel production consumes so much energy.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026

Shaping the brackets involved a hammer and . . . well, that's it, actually.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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