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take shape
Idioms and Phrases
Also, shape up . Turn out, develop, acquire a distinctive form, as in Her reelection campaign is already taking shape, two years before the election , or Can you tell us how the book is shaping up? The first term dates from the mid-1700s and the variant, originally put as shape out , from about 1600.Example Sentences
According to various testimonies, this was about the time Yoon's martial law plot began to take shape.
And he is doing this in such a way that, to many, the old world order appears to be over - and the new world order has yet to take shape.
Despite that, some of Xi's aims are already taking shape - his strategy having been set out over three stages, spanning 34 years.
It is likely that we will see a rolling set of political, diplomatic and military gatherings as the plan slowly takes shape.
The plan took shape five days after Trump issued his order.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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