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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
materialise .
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Examples
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I thought Ninjas just mysteriously materialised from the shadows.
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Geldenhuys said it was important that teachers be offered monetary incentives to move to rural areas, adding that he hoped the negotiations with unions proceeded, and the idea materialised as soon as possible.
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When the idea "materialised" to go to America, wrote Vera in February 2002, "I decided freely for myself to stay with the grandparents."
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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Except for the incident just related, when several pints of very real fluids were somehow "materialised" at a spot ten feet below where they had vanished, nothing worth recording occurred during the first seven days of our stay at Chatterton Place.
The Blind Spot Austin Hall 1908
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"materialised," and Grettir and Olaf Howard's son fought them with strength of arm and edge of steel.
Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878
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'materialised', and this time it took over completely.
Mousekingdom Blog Simon Veness 2009
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It found that people were buying less-polluting cars, but the required improvements in environmentally friendly driving had not materialised.
Force energy companies to insulate UK homes, climate advisers say 2011
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It never materialised because-I've heard at the last WorldCon-he couldn't get enough optimistic stories.
MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 2) 2009
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Bert, young and vigorous and back from the big smoke for the holidays, materialised before me as never before.
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The protest materialised after the National Transitional Council lined up Albarrani Shkal, a former Gaddafi general, as head of security in the capital, Tripoli.
Libya's revolutionaries have divisions to bridge | Ranj Alaaldin 2011
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