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- she has all the makings of an excellent leader, but she needs some experience first
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- will you help me make the dough for the cookies?
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- we finally made it!
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- achieving,
- attaining,
- bagging,
- chalking up,
- clocking (up)
- [chiefly British],
- gaining,
- hitting,
- logging,
- notching (up),
- racking up,
- ringing up,
- scoring,
- winning
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- the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over
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- one person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting
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- made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around
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- I make that to be about six feet long
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- calculating,
- calling,
- conjecturing,
- estimating,
- figuring,
- gauging
- (also gaging),
- guessing,
- judging,
- placing,
- putting,
- reckoning,
- supposing
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- make a model airplane
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- carpentering,
- fashioning,
- forging,
- framing,
- hammering,
- handcrafting,
- manufacturing,
- molding,
- producing,
- shaping
- beginning,
- coining,
- creating,
- generating,
- inaugurating,
- initiating,
- innovating,
- inventing,
- originating
- reassembling,
- rebuilding,
- reconstructing,
- redeveloping,
- reedifying
- [British],
- retrofitting
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- the family made merry despite their financial worries
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- the baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug
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- the legislature failed to make any new laws last session
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- I make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here
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- what do you make of the latest information?
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- appreciating,
- apprehending,
- assimilating,
- beholding,
- catching,
- catching on (to),
- cognizing,
- compassing,
- comprehending,
- conceiving,
- cottoning (to or on to),
- deciphering,
- decoding,
- digging,
- discerning,
- getting,
- grasping,
- grokking,
- intuiting,
- knowing,
- making out,
- perceiving,
- recognizing,
- registering,
- savvying,
- seeing,
- seizing,
- sensing,
- tumbling (to),
- twigging,
- understanding
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- make the gate when ye leave
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“Making.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/making. Accessed 19 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of making was in the 12th century
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