as in apparition
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
since no one lived in the attic, the landlord suggested that the new tenant might have seen the materialization of a woman once murdered there
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Recent Examples of materialization
Bottega Veneta’s high-craft clutches and 3D flower mules: iconic items of the house get even better with novel techniques and materializations.
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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
In addition to all the other tacit work the fashion industry does to define what different body types mean, clothing offers a frank materialization of rightness.
—Heather Radke, Time, 26 Nov. 2022
In its first run, the General Purpose Shoe proved to be a materialization of mastering the basics.
—Sara Klausing, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2022
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
In addition to all the other tacit work the fashion industry does to define what different body types mean, clothing offers a frank materialization of rightness.
—Heather Radke, Time, 26 Nov. 2022
In its first run, the General Purpose Shoe proved to be a materialization of mastering the basics.
—Sara Klausing, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for materialization
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To have a follower recount a feat of superhuman strength, or even an apparition, is hard for a layperson to fathom but has the advantage of having happened in the past and out of the view of nonbelievers.Michelle Weber, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2024
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But there can be more to a scary movie than just screaming apparitions or a gradually diminishing number of coeds with a bad sense of self-preservation.Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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The ultimate effect is paradoxical: the more that Valéry eliminates the ghost of pain and passion from the logical machinery of his work, the starker and more affecting the moans and cries of the ghost become.Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Easier said than done since many of the ghosts that haunt Light Shop are jump-out-of-your-seat scary.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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In the spirit of holiday giving, the team invites their community to nominate and vote for upstanding charitable organizations that support mothers.Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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While plenty of drinkers crowd the bar area, lots of Guinness also flows upstairs at the gastropub, which has the spirit of a French village restaurant.Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Materialization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/materialization. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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