take shape
Example Sentences
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Somewhere in that ancient mix of species, landscapes, diets, and chance events, the path to modern humans began to take shape.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
However, the 50-day moving average has flattened and is no longer declining, while a potential inverse head-and-shoulders pattern is starting to take shape.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
He began creating a seven-member boy group in 2010, but it took a few years for BTS, as we know it today, to take shape.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
What initially seemed unlikely is now becoming more plausible, with the risk of a stagflationary environment starting to take shape, SimCorp’s Olivier d’Assier said in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
It began to take shape in its same curious, light, gravity-defying attitude—the once-folded sheet out of the wistaria Mississippi summer, the cigar smell, the random blowing of the fireflies.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
