materialize
verb (used without object)
to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out.
are materializing
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present progressiveof materialize.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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SYDNEY—Reserve Bank of Australia Gov. Michele Bullock warned Friday that the central bank’s concerns regarding stubborn inflation are materializing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Scenes reminiscent of her images of displacement and poverty are materializing all around us today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2021
“As more states begin to scale their testing capabilities, new constraints are materializing within the supply chain,” Ghaly said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2020
Yet in a land of such mass displacement, where unlovely Communist-era cities are being gutted and equally unlovely capitalist-era ones are materializing in their stead, people still confer an almost talismanic importance to their laojia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
"Oh, Tavia declares that in magazines scientific fellows are materializing the immaterial," said Nat quite learnedly.
From Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays by Margaret Penrose
