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materialize

[muh-teer-ee-uh-lahyz] / məˈtɪər i əˌlaɪz /


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Even if more robust assistance were to materialize, the Saudis will still face tough choices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Yet the race has accelerated so quickly that it has become challenging to distinguish projects that are ready to build from those that might never materialize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The artificial-intelligence investment boom is the primary driver of growth, and if the productivity increases investors expect from it materialize, growth may be about to exceed anything we have seen for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

At the same time, a home-price crash isn’t about to materialize, she stressed.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

From the austerity and tranquility of her medieval world, the penetrating gaze of this legendary Sybil of a holy nun would exorcise the horrors which materialize before our eves in the name of television.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Whether it gets made, he said, depends on whether the fund materializes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Even those whose families migrated here seeking a “better life” can speak to how uneven the American dream materializes across class, race and country of origin.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

Even if a peace deal eventually materializes, the oil price isn’t likely to fall back to levels seen before the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

For the full year, Wall Street projects SLB to grow annual sales about 2%, an outlook that could prove to be conservative if the postconflict scenario materializes sooner rather than later.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

The moment its bottom touches the edge, I can already see the worst-case scenario playing in my head, but it isn’t until he lets go of the Comet that my worst fear materializes into reality.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

In other cases, startups have predicted surging demand for their AI products that never materialized, forcing them to resell leftover capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Well before his alter ego materialized, and well before Hollywood found him, MacLachlan was prone to anxiety and fears of never fitting in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

That effort eventually materialized into a special collection at UC San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

As we drove down to Orikum, a beach town south of Vlore, Aulon spoke at length about the other times they’ve been promised benefits from luxury tourist resorts that never materialized.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Another D.I. materialized from behind the barracks, issued some sharp, resonant orders and soon the platoon was moving toward the mess hall.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Data centers are mushrooming, so numerous and monolithic they seem abstract, until one starts materializing on the Conodoguinet Creek in Pennsylvania, where I grew up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

He doesn’t see “imminent” danger of any of the three risks he flagged materializing, which is why he’s staying bullish and “tactically positive on risk assets” — for now.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

Management has been calling for a “hockey stick” in AI consumption during the second half of 2026 and into 2027, and Blakey said the guidance boost suggests that dynamic is materializing ahead of schedule.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026

“At the moment, we think the chances of this deal materializing are probably remote,” they write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

G’ma says, materializing, it seems, at Scoob’s shoulder and reaching for the vibrating device.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone




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