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in the making
adjective as in planned
adjective as in unfinished
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- amateurish
- crude
- cut short
- dabbling
- defective
- deficient
- dilettante
- faulty
- formless
- found wanting
- fragmentary
- half-baked
- half-done
- immature
- imperfect
- in the rough
- lacking
- natural
- not done
- plain
- raw
- rough
- roughhewn
- shapeless
- sketchy
- tentative
- unaccomplished
- unassembled
- uncompleted
- unconcluded
- under construction
- undone
- unexecuted
- unfashioned
- unperfected
- unpolished
- unrefined
- wanting
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"She was a brilliant writer in the making and you see something of her brilliance in these stories."
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Its dominance was decades in the making.
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Chinese dominance here is decades in the making, however.
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But Maryland appears to have a star in the making at quarterback.
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In a note Friday, Guggenheim analyst John DiFucci called Oracle a “decade stock” in the making.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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