Making and Taking in

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Making noun - The act that results in something coming to be.

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Taking in and making are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Taking in" instead an adjective "Making".

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Making and taking in are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Making" instead an adjective phrase "Taking in".

This may be a Shout-Out to the comics where, after the Xandarian empire was nearly wiped out and then re-established, they began taking in other refugees from planetary disasters, making the new empire and the Nova Corps a Melting Pot of various alien races.

Source: Film / Guardians of the Galaxy
At the start of the film, the only sustainable crop left for agriculture is corn, and it too will soon succumb to the blight, which is also taking in nitrogen and making the atmosphere virtually unbreatheable thanks to massive dust storms.

Source: Crapsack World / Film

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