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un·fold·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unfolding, floweringnoun

    a developmental process

    "the flowering of antebellum culture"

Wiktionary

  1. unfoldingnoun

    The process by which something unfolds or becomes revealed.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unfoldingadjective

    Directing to unfold.

    The unfolding star calls up the shepherd. William Shakespeare.

ChatGPT

  1. unfolding

    Unfolding is the process of fully extending, expanding, or revealing something that has been previously folded, compacted, concealed or obscured. This term could refer to a physical act (like unfolding a piece of cloth), an abstract concept (like a plot of a story unfolding), or even phenomena in nature and scientific processes (like a protein unfolding).

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unfolding in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unfolding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of unfolding in a Sentence

  1. The Pontiff:

    May the international community not stand by before the immense humanitarian tragedy unfolding in these countries and the drama of the numerous refugees.

  2. Amit Ray:

    Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. A true teacher pushes the students out of the nest to strengthen the wings.

  3. Rabbi Zalman Lipskar:

    It's just been heart-wrenching... not knowing, and not being able to really deal with this magnitude of the tragedy that's unfolding, the only thing that helps in these times is kindness and empathy and togetherness, because Rabbi Zalman Lipskar can't take away the reality.

  4. Fawaz Gerges:

    Obama believes that reaching a nuclear deal with Iran could be his foreign policy legacy. The Americans are not looking at the deal with Iran in terms of its regional impact, the U.S. deal with Iran would deeply intensify a new cold war that has been unfolding between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Sunni Saudi Arabia allies on one hand and Iran. It would likely pour more gasoline on the raging fires in the Gulf Arab heartland.

  5. James Comer:

    President Biden created this crisis by announcing to the world he wants to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants and by rolling back deterrent policies aimed at curbing illegal immigration, it’s past time Oversight Democrats hold this administration accountable for the humanitarian and national security crisis unfolding at the border.

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