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materialize

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


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If a September rate hike doesn’t materialize, investors can’t keep demanding higher yields on concerns the Fed hasn’t got inflation under control, the strategist argued.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Had I accidentally discovered a supernatural portal where time and space didn’t exist, one where random phenomena of blinding beauty could materialize on this plane without any logical explanation?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

As a Fed governor 15 years ago, Warsh was more worried about inflation than nearly all of his colleagues, and for years it didn’t materialize.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

She said that the ROI for these assistants didn’t materialize on day one, although that’s typical with most new technology experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Ama saw a streak of white materialize at the girl’s throat as her dæmon effortfully changed into a long, sinuous, snowy-furred creature with brilliant black eyes and black-tipped tail, and laid himself alongside her neck.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

“Bottom line, I like treating this weakness as an opportunity rather than a warning, with my expectation being for a push back to new highs before a choppier period materializes into September,” he says.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

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

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

A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The firm, which bought Aevex in 2020, hired Jefferies in late 2023 to solicit bids for sale, a person familiar with the matter said, but a deal never materialized.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

“Despite the goal with these incentives being to attract filmmaking and lead to economic stimulus, that’s not materialized in the data,” Button said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Such lines of business have not yet materialized.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Flipping through them three decades on, she realized what made dELiA*s and its ilk so different from the other mail-order catalogs that materialized every few months in her family’s mail pile like L.L.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

When I turn, a guard has materialized from one of the rooms at the far end of the corridor.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

German headcount reduction targets don’t appear to be materializing, while a production shift to low-cost countries is unlikely to accelerate until 2030.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Fed officials who voted for no rate hikes would need stronger U.S. jobs numbers and more elevated inflation to be convinced, but the economist doesn’t see such data materializing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 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

“Um... what about that materializing/ teleporting thing you guys do?”

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan




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