Meaning & use
Materialize
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To become actual fact; to take physical form or appear, especially unexpectedly.
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Her plans to start a business never materialized.
A figure seemed to materialize out of the fog at the end of the road.
A note on using this word
Materialize is also used in spiritualist contexts to describe a spirit supposedly taking physical form during a séance.
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