in the making

Meaning

in the making

(idiomatic) In development; in the process of being made or evolving.
You're witnessing a great reference work in the making.

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Synonyms

abroad emerging inexperienced emergent nascent astir budding unfulfilled

Antonyms

age-old

Related terms

makings

Examples

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. Don DeLillo

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. Franklin D. Roosevelt

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well. Dinah Craik

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. Mao Zedong

Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making. Chester W. Nimitz

Idealist: a cynic in the making. Irving Layton

Words in the phrase

in the making

Close letter words and terms

in the main yard in the mainstream in the majority of cases in the male ancestry in the male heritage in the male line