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What is the verb for material?

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materialize
  1. (transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
  2. (intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
  3. (transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He must also exist antecedently as the highest super-physical archetype or pattern which cosmic forces unfold and materialize into physical man in the physical realm.”
      “Dublin and Westminster both kept their fingers crossed that their hopes for a new dawn would materialize.”
      “Both had arrived off Vicksburg as directed and now awaited the Union army's approach. Yet this event would never materialize as anticipated.”
materialise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Trials with Stockport and Crewe failed to materialise into anything concrete.”
      “While we do not necessarily expect history to repeat itself, a dollar rally may still take longer to materialise than many now seem to expect.”
      “I had thought the inclusion of black pudding, while undeniably dramatic looking, was dubious, but the cold greasiness feared did not materialise.”
material
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.
materializes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of materialize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If this consolidation materializes, those computer giants will have more power to expand their market shares.”
      “This network evolves and materializes through a process of inspiration, image, and historic precedent.”
      “The idea of the war between morals and instincts materializes in the efforts of a prostitute who wants to change her ways.”
materialises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of materialise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I am training and am in good shape and can only wait and see what materialises along the way.”
      “Perhaps that materialises the participation from the spectator, which is necessary in order to have a show.”
      “If ever it materialises, it will have a legal basis and it will be ambitious.”
materialized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of materialize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Nearby, a table upon which was printed a map of the kingdom also materialized, with numerous counters on it representing the kingdom's armies.”
      “I heard the scrape of a dry flint and another man, very regal-looking, materialized.”
      “For them, the general feeling of humiliation and powerlessness has materialized in a concrete way.”
materialised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of materialise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “None of the nightmare scenarios laid out so graphically by the tabloids materialised.”
      “This materialised in a claim for diplomatic immunity under article 33 of the Vienna Convention of 1961 in the case undertaken by me.”
      “She must prove that, on the balance of probabilities, and insured risk has materialised.”
materialled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of material
  2. Examples:
    1. “I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life.”
materialising
  1. present participle of materialise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Everything was patiently explained and the chances of monsters somehow materialising under the bed were rationalised away.”
      “He stood spell-bound, gazing at them the way one would at an apparition suddenly materialising out of the blue.”
      “The degree of probability of the risk materialising and not remoteness was extremely high.”
materializing
  1. present participle of materialize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There must be strange entities materializing from the ether, ghouls, ghosts, or spirits hanging out in the material world to warn or haunt us.”
      “Music becomes a means of materializing new spaces, producing the future, not as some distant never-never land, but in place of today.”
      “The bonefish are right over there, a silvery school materializing out of the greener water to graze the shrimpy mud of the flat.”
materialling
  1. present participle of material
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