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Recent Examples of materialization Not meant to be taken literally, the twist after a shocking act violence reads like the materialization of Ali’s desire to be a bolder, more stereotypically masculine iteration of himself. Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025 New materializations of pure desire, birthing all creatures, as hungry as new life. Ida Momennejad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024 Bottega Veneta’s high-craft clutches and 3D flower mules: iconic items of the house get even better with novel techniques and materializations. Sandra Salibian, WWD, 7 Oct. 2024 Voilà, our cruel world is improved by the materialization of Ice Spice, a 24-year-old from the Bronx who raps with vivid nonchalance, delivering a rhyming interior monologue that everyone can suddenly hear, communicating broadly but with telepathic intimacy. Chris Richards, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024 The floating object was the materialization of a constant dread, the embodiment of an alien intrusion. WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023 The materialization of either one of these key risks would dent risk sentiment, boosting the dollar, Livingstone says. wsj.com, 11 May 2023 To explain and prove to people that design is more then the materialization of a concept in the name of esthetics and commercialization. Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023 The way Cisco rallied together to support the people of Ukraine following the Russian attack is possibly the best materialization of Cisco's Conscious Culture. Carolina Milanesi, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for materialization
Noun
  • Zoe, as an apparition, is both the cause and relief to her pain.
    Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
  • In one of the film’s more startling moments, Shiri and Yarden Bibas and other residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz — many of whom, including Shiri Bibas and her two children, are now confirmed dead — flit across the screen like apparitions.
    Toby Axelrod, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • And with that, the Woodstone property gained yet another ghost, one who may have just launched the show into its season endgame.
    Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 6 Mar. 2025
  • So the unseen figure of the ghost becomes an expression of the filmmaker’s power over the frame, evoking the sadistic-voyeuristic nature of cinema in general and genre cinema in particular.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • What none of them realize is the power of the sandman. Staples, who holds an MFA in fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts, gives us a creepy and fast-paced story that details the workings of a well-run casino and the spirits of those who have been there in life.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Pompeii is closer in spirit for many of the shows that Bauer was known for at Tandem such as The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.
    Peter White, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Materialization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/materialization. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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