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I'd like to ask if sentence “We accelerate ideas” sounds odd or natural? What is the best word/phrasal to describe transformation of the ideas into reality/real things?

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  • "We create the future" sounds nice. Aug 3, 2014 at 12:07
  • Request for personal preferences or suggestions make the question off-topic!!
    – user66974
    Aug 3, 2014 at 13:10
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    "We accelerate ideas" sounds like corporate fluff; likely from a company ruled by the sales department. Aug 3, 2014 at 13:39
  • Yes, the expression "we accelerate ideas" sounds odd, and does not convey the meaning you are after. To accelerate means to quicken something, in other words you are saying "we" make ideas go faster. Is that a good or bad thing?
    – Mari-Lou A
    Oct 22, 2015 at 0:41
  • We make ideas become reality” is cliché, but it renders the meaning more accurately.
    – Mari-Lou A
    Oct 22, 2015 at 0:46

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To materialize can convey the idea:

  • To cause to become real or actual: By building the house, we materialized a dream.
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"He realized his grand idea in the form of..."

[Or, the more anachronistic but electrifying "reified"]

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Consider the verb execute

Carry out or put into effect (a plan, order, or course of action): the corporation executed a series of financial deals [Oxford Dictionary Online]

The term is often used in business to indicate decisive implementation. The term executive is directly related, as one who is charged with bringing something to fruition. You might say

Some companies play with ideas. We execute.

Similarly implement

Put (a decision, plan, agreement, etc.) into effect [ also ODO]

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We manifest reality where there were only dreams.

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    – choster
    Aug 4, 2014 at 5:59
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Flesh out [1. [MWV] (tr) to give substance to (an argument, description, etc): Collins] is often used:

the theorists have fleshed out a variety of scenarios [ODO]

'Realise' is a synonym of 'materialize', but both have more common senses and are thus perhaps a poorer choice.

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After experiencing a momentary lapse of "writer's block," a Google query to this post inspired me with the right word, which I’m compelled to share-behold-incarnate:

  1. "embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form."
  2. "personified or typified, as a quality or idea: chivalry incarnate."
  3. 'flesh-colored or crimson."
  4. 'put (an idea or other abstract concept) into concrete form.'
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  • How exactly is incarnate the right word? How should it be used? In addition to providing the definition, your answer should address the above points.
    – Ben
    Oct 21, 2015 at 23:55
  • Implicitly, #4 satisfies the second-part of the question, "what is the best word/phrasal to describe transformation of the ideas into reality/real things?" so I was compelled to share the inspiration. Thank you, @TowerofTesla. Oct 24, 2015 at 0:06
  • (+1) You're welcome @ alexanderjsingleton
    – Ben
    Oct 24, 2015 at 0:09
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"We accelerate ideas" sounds like a slogan or logo subtitle, of a company of the not so trustworthy kind.

The problem is that it is too general - a bad marketing department could apply this to every second company.

If you use it to actually describe "turning ideas into reality" - how should the reader know?

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To turn ideas into reality or to concretise ideas may fit.

"Concretise" means to render concrete; make real or specific; give tangible form to

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Make one's dreams come true

something that happens that you have always hoped for
"Meeting you is a dream come true for me."
Macmillan Dictionary

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