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manifest as in:  manifest destiny

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    Her program has been a manifest failure. Everyone is trying to blame someone else for it.
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    The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication
    manifest = demonstrate
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    The ghost manifests each year on the same day.
    manifests = shows (it's presence)
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    All the things I dread most, all the things I dread for others manifest in such vivid detail I can't help but believe they're real.  (source)
    manifest = clearly seen
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    For these were the hands that had acted on their own, no part of him, here was where the conscience first manifested itself to snatch books, dart off with Job and Ruth and Willie Shakespeare, and now, in the firehouse, these hands seemed gloved with blood.  (source)
    manifested = showed
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    all things are the manifestation of one thing only.  (source)
    manifestation = demonstration
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    This boy is manifestly no son of yours, for your cheek is as dark as mine but the boy is fair and white  (source)
    manifestly = obviously
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    Still, Mo was pleased that she had spotted the different "physical manifestations," as he called her observation.  (source)
    manifestations = demonstrations
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.  (source)
    manifesting = making obvious
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    discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails,  (source)
    manifests = demonstrates itself
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    The cosmogonic cycle pulses forth into manifestation and back into nonmanifestation amidst a silence of the unknown.†  (source)
    nonmanifestation = not demonstrated
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonmanifestation means not and reverses the meaning of manifestation. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    "No," said Ezinma, whose feeling of importance was manifest in her sprightly walk.  (source)
    manifest = clearly seen
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    It manifested itself in small gestures: offers of condolences for his misfortune, respectful silence whenever he spoke, and murmurs of assent when he made a statement.  (source)
    manifested = demonstrated
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manifest as in:  ship's manifest

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The inspector asked to see the ship's manifest.
manifest = document listing contents being transported
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    The guns were not on the ship's manifest.
    manifest = official document listing contents being transported
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    I haven't checked the manifest, but I assume you can wait another two weeks for it.  (source)
    manifest = document listing contents being transported
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    As the driver gunned the car up Windsock Drive, he consulted his passenger manifest and placed a quick call.  (source)
    manifest = document listing passengers being transported
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    To get all those passenger manifests will take time.  (source)
    manifests = official documents listing passengers being transported
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    Its hold will tuck all our frigates and transports into a little corner — we'll be just a small part of the ship's manifest.  (source)
    manifest = document listing contents being transported
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    Roran said nothing more until Jeod mentioned that the reason Brom and Eragon had visited Teirm was to see if they could use the city's shipping manifests to locate the Ra'zac's lair.  (source)
    manifests = official document listing contents being transported
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    The list is pinned up like the manifest from a plane crash, the names of survivors.  (source)
    manifest = document listing passengers being transported
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    Unfortunately, that ethos sometimes manifests itself in confused messaging.†  (source)
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    The first person in the squadron to find out that Doc Daneeka was dead was Sergeant Towser, who had been informed earlier by the man in the control tower that Doc Daneeka's name was down as a passenger on the pilot's manifest McWatt had filed before taking off.  (source)
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    My aunt manifests only the most occasional vestige of her old interest in who my actual father is or was; last Christmas, in Sawyer Depot, she managed to get me alone for a second and she said, "Do you still not know?†  (source)
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    I will be participating in a ceremony at Ellis Island, where I will receive copies of the ship manifest and the immigration documents that record the arrival in America of my mother,  (source)
    manifest = a document listing contents and passengers being transported
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    It manifests in my hands, shining to life in little sparks.†  (source)
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    He found the passenger manifest for which he had been searching.  (source)
    manifest = document listing passengers being transported
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