take shape

idiomatic phrase

: to assume a definite or distinctive form : to develop and become apparent or established

The plan is finally taking shape.

Edison's tireless work habits took shape during his childhood …—

Paul Gray

The proto-planetary fragments crashed together, coalesced by gravity, and crashed again into other fragments, until they gradually took shape as the planets we know today.—

M. Mitchell Waldrop

… the first half of the century, before the modern medical system took shape.—

Geoffrey Cowley

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Now, the reality of this new paradigm in Fresno is beginning to take shape. —

Vanessa Rancaño, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024 As the duo brought together musicians and dancers at Eastern Star Church, the structure and vision for a new nonprofit took shape. —

Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Dec. 2024 His crypto policy team is already taking shape, with the announcement this month of crypto-friendly Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins and White House crypto czar David Sacks. —

Hannah Lang, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024 Yet the Administration now taking shape looks less likely to restrain capitalism than to supercharge it. —

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for take shape