unfolding
- noun
- /ʌnˈfoʊldɪŋ/
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desarrollo
- The reporter detailed the unfolding of events during the crucial meeting.
So this entire process is the necessary unfolding of truth.
- So this entire process is the necessary unfolding of truth.
- This molecular unfolding of pattern gives us insight.
- This doesn't happen overnight, but it's a slow unfolding process.
- But it's certainly has been essential to my ongoing unfolding as a human being.
- Progress is the unfolding of Western society and Western civilization.
Examples
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So what are libertarians to make of this unfolding legal drama?
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Marx did see human history as unfolding of modes of production.
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So this entire process is the necessary unfolding of truth.
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That is to say, we study its history, we study its unfolding in time.
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So now we see Fukushima and the unfolding nuclear crisis.
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The novel suggests that the palimpsestic and unpredictable nature of colonial encounter, good or bad, is subject to present and future unfoldings, not just the dictates of an artificially made and unvaried past.
Academic text (2016) -
The professor explained the unfolding of the plot as the story progressed.
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Throughout the semester, we observed the unfolding of new ideas in the students' projects.
Synonyms
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3.8
A process of moving forward or developing over time
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4.9
A process where something appears and becomes known or important
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A slow process of something being shown and developed
A change that happens slowly over a long time
Antonyms
How Developed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unfolding comes from un- and fold, like opening a folded map to show what was hidden, so an unfolding is the slow 'opening up' or revealing of a story or situation.