materialize

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When the dire warnings of 'the population bomb' were sounded back around 1980 I already knew the warnings were far too early, and would be ridiculed when the 'bomb' failed to materialize -- and that by 2000, when the real population crunch loomed, those who warned of it then would be ridiculed as neo-Malthusians.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to become real or actual: By building the house, we materialized a dream.
  2. transitive verb To cause to become materialistic: "Inequality has the natural and necessary effect . . . of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class” (Matthew Arnold).
  3. intransitive verb To assume material or effective form: Their support on the eastern flank did not materialize.
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  • One is the obvious ability to move the radar as threats materialize, allowing much greater coverage with fewer radars. —  Defense Industry Daily
  • But those plans did not materialize, and by 1926 the building housed tigers, leopards, Asian elephants and a hippopotamus. —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • Obamer promised them don't materialize, they will turn on him. —  Latest Articles
  • HD encoders and their benefits for Roberts Communications and Churchill Downs may not materialize, and actual results could differ materially from those projected. —  Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox
  • Even when knockouts do not materialize, the frenetic pace set by Arnaoutis seldom fails to satisfy, both in the ring and verbally, with Arnaoutis 'proudly repeating the "My destiny is greatness" mantra to anyone within earshot.
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materialize:   materialized ·  materializes
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  1. = French matérialiser = Italian materializzare; as material + -ize.
 

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/məˈtirɪəlaɪz/
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