make real

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These underscored just how challenging their sci-fi dreams will be to make real.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

To make real progress on those issues, the city should create its own public health department, similar to those found in Long Beach and Pasadena, Calanche said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

"It takes critical thinking to develop and use AI tools in ways that make real advances in science, technology and the humanities," Burton says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

Hayley Barlow-Ford, from Edlington, said she believed a national registry would allow patients and doctors to make "real decisions, rather than relying on trial and error".

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

She could take dance classes and go to the community pool, sure, but she never stuck around long enough to make real friends, much less relive memories with them years later.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman