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In literature the term "develop" is employed in a wide range of contexts to signify gradual change, growth, or the elaboration of a process. It is used to describe natural or biological growth—as when primitive cells give rise to sexual organs ([1]) or when plants sprout and extend their radicles ([2])—as well as the evolution of abstract qualities or ideas, such as the slow unfolding of a character’s personality ([3]) or the refinement of an artistic voice ([4]). At the same time, the word also conveys a sense of deliberate, often strategic construction, whether it’s forming plans ([5]) or establishing networks and techniques ([6]). By invoking both physical and metaphorical connotations, "develop" becomes a versatile term that captures the unfolding of potential in myriad literary narratives ([7], [8]).
  1. The sexual glands develop originally from the two promesoblasts or primitive mesodermic cells (Fig.
    — from Paradise Lost by John Milton
  2. During this period they sprout and develop small radicles.
    — from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess
  3. In George Eliot's novels the characters develop gradually as we come to know them.
    — from English Literature by William J. Long
  4. Vocal music reaches its perfection when the melodic form is allowed to develop freely, and carry our consciousness with it to its own wonderful plane.
    — from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore
  5. Here he began to develop in due order, as he always did, a plan for the exchange that was to take place.
    — from Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz
  6. We have to develop both the network and the techniques for building it semi-automatically and self-adaptively.
    — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
  7. This common madness can develop, by nurture, into a hunger for notoriety in one, for fame in another.
    — from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
  8. It described the Palestine of the near future as it would develop through the Zionist Movement.
    — from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

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