Not only are the run-ins taking longer to play out, but they’re also materializing earlier.
Fighting Didn’t Stop In The NHL Bubble|Josh Planos|August 26, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Certainly, history tells us that plenty of storylines will materialize — or be lost forever — depending on which section of 60 games happens to be the 60 that get played this year.
Bad Teams May Be Posing As Good Teams In A 60-Game Baseball Season|Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com)|August 7, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Others have suggested that magnetism materialized microseconds later, when protons formed.
The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View|Natalie Wolchover|July 2, 2020|Quanta Magazine
The theory doesn’t address, for example, how “live” organisms and “evil” organisms managed to materialize from a primordial smoothie containing both right- and left-handed building blocks.
Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA|Charlie Wood|June 29, 2020|Quanta Magazine
The hang-up partly explains why universal testing plans in skilled nursing facilities were slow to materialize.
COVID-19 Lawsuit Against La Jolla Facility Could Signal More Fights to Come|Jared Whitlock|June 23, 2020|Voice of San Diego
This Oath Keeper was there for the protest, which had yet to materialize, and had a few friends joining him, he told me.
NYC’s Garner Protesters vs. Pro-Cop Protesters|Jacob Siegel|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It took the beheading videos, and the deaths of two Americans, for that support to materialize.
Hey, Congress: Vote on the Damn War|Michael Tomasky|September 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the unity deal failed to materialize after the Palestinian Authority declined to pay the salaries of Hamas civil servants.
Senators: Take Gaza Away From Hamas|Eli Lake|September 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He has “no idea” if the fullness of the memory will ever materialize.
Exclusive: ‘X-Men’ Sex Abuse Lawyer Says He Was Assaulted, Too|Tim Teeman|May 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is, however, unusual for four survival movies—all of them very high-profile, and all of them very good—to materialize at once.
Why We Are Under the Spell of Survival Movies|Andrew Romano|October 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He's been there to give her things to materialize and soon I'll hear of them!
The Come Back|Carolyn Wells
The last years of Newton's life were perplexed by the charge that his theory of gravitation tended to "materialize" religion.
Inventors|Philip Gengembre Hubert
He had to do it that way, did not want her to wait endlessly and hopelessly for a return that would not materialize.
Voyage To Eternity|Milton Lesser
If the aid promised by the United States were actually to materialize!
The Enemies of Women|Vicente Blasco Ibez
Like some strange, shining ghosts, these ships seemed to materialize instantly beside and behind their fleet.
The Black Star Passes|John W Campbell
British Dictionary definitions for materialize
materialize
materialise
/ (məˈtɪərɪəˌlaɪz) /
verb
(intr)to become fact; actually happenour hopes never materialized
to invest or become invested with a physical shape or form
to cause (a spirit, as of a dead person) to appear in material form or (of a spirit) to appear in such form
(intr)to take shape; become tangibleafter hours of discussion, the project finally began to materialize
physicsto form (material particles) from energy, as in pair production