take shape
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Where much democracy research documents what people say they believe, ethnography examines how and why political worldviews take shape within the full context of daily experiences, relationships, and social environments.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
It was really starting to take shape in his brain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
That evening the co-founders discussed the idea with their families and CarryMen began to take shape.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
The theory began to take shape in the 1920s, when Georges Lemaître linked Edwin Hubble’s observations of receding galaxies with Alexander Friedmann’s earlier equations describing an expanding universe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
An important consequence follows from this argument: we should not really expect to find reliable science before scientific communities began to take shape in the 1640s.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
