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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

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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

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STRONGEST

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

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casting creating making modeling

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After decades spent shaping modern movies without ever taking home a competitive Oscar, actor Glenn Close and director Ridley Scott will finally receive statuettes from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this fall.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

"Demand seems to be shaping up pretty well," Renaissance Capital's Matthew Kennedy said of the transaction that aims to raise $75 billion in what would be a record-breaking IPO.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Together, these insights are shaping a growing subfield known as evolutionary dentistry, using our evolutionary past to understand the dental problems of the present.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Sunshine’s listing adds to what is shaping up to be the hottest market for new stock offerings in years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

This struggle for survival was the shaping hand.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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