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[ verb ] develop into a distinctive entity

Examples

"our plans began to take shape"

Used in print

And it remains to be seen if the new frontier now taking_form can produce the leadership and wisdom necessary to understand the current shape of events .

(Modern Maturity, 4:6...)

The vision of a Lord_Tennyson expressed in a poem 100 years ago took visible form over London in_the_air blitzes of 1941 .

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