'materialise' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe the process of an abstract concept or idea becoming a reality. For example, "My dreams of going to Europe materialised when I won the lottery."
But the result in practice is almost always over-engineering: the component costs more to develop, the suspected additional use rarely materialises, when it does materialise it has requirements that don't quite match the actual implementation, and the component as a whole is more brittle, less comprehensible to successive developers and more difficult to maintain.
Should they win next year's election, the Tories are pledged to follow a renegotiation of Britain's membership with an in/out referendum that will supposedly materialise by the end of 2017.
His prediction that his coalition would take power in September 2008 by persuading MPs from the government coalition smacked of hubris and the takeover failed to materialise.
But with Spain in the grips of the 2008 economic downturn, the money earmarked for the improvements failed to materialise, and the site remained vacant, cordoned off from the rest of the city by a chainlink fence.
What we need now are the right politicians to ensure that the positive changes we are calling for truly materialise.
Even when they make those pledges how do we know how much is going to materialise?
The Northern Irish peace process talks brokered by Richard Haass collapsed without reaching an agreement As EU labour restrictions on workers from Romania and Bulgaria were lifted, the rightwing press's predictions of a stampede of eastern Europeans coming to claim benefits failed to materialise.
As more tales of student sexism materialise, institutions should be pressured to: Create and publicise clear reporting and referral pathways for students of all genders who experience harassment and violence.
This change in demographics necessitates a change in social care budgets that has so far failed to materialise.
60 min: The anticipated classic is yet to materialise.
Some 90% of pledged aid failed to materialise, in part because aid pledges are often used to finance aid agencies' own studies and programmes, or because those agencies are unable to find Haitian partners offering necessary fiduciary safeguards.
