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- verb Present participle of
eventuate .
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Examples
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It was a crushing loss that haunted him for the rest of his life, eventuating in his madness.
Robert D. Stolorow: Trauma And The Hourglass Of Time Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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And this process will minimise that risk from eventuating.
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Thus, when in 2000 they withdrew from the security zone they had established in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah moved in, and then their withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 resulted in a takeover by Hamas — eventuating in both cases not in peace or even improved prospects for peace but in war and more war.
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The irony, of course, is stunning when this kind of rhetoric elides into the massive Wall Street bailout, most likely eventuating in partial public ownership of private corporations.
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The irony, of course, is stunning when this kind of rhetoric elides into the massive Wall Street bailout, most likely eventuating in partial public ownership of private corporations.
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These are approximate ages, of course, but they fairly well punctuate the lifetime, eventuating in the life-seasons that we commonly experience.
9/11 - The seventh anniversary is a point of 'maturity' 2008
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Written English can be amended over time, deleting superfluous sentences, compacting complex concepts, and inserting new ideas, eventuating in a full and complete final document.
Archive 2007-10-01 StyleyGeek 2007
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I still see the dog hairs eventuating their existence, finer than my dark entanglements, but I am not fooled by ideas of an imminence of their return.
Counting On Fantasies Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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Written English can be amended over time, deleting superfluous sentences, compacting complex concepts, and inserting new ideas, eventuating in a full and complete final document.
Children of the digital age StyleyGeek 2007
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In the end, neither proves to have borne much relation to eventuating reality.
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