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I have two questions regarding this sentence:

今になってもまだ実現していないさま。

  1. The meaning / grammar of ~も in 今になっても.
  2. The meaning / grammar of ~さま part at the end of the sentence. As I know ~さま is added to the names at the end when you addressing to someone in official language.

I found this sentence at goo here explaining the 未だ.

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「今{いま}になってもまだ実現{じつげん}していないさま」

First, this is not a sentence; It is only a noun phrase (a relative clause). Everything that is in front of 「さま」 modifies 「さま」. It is 「様」 in kanji.

1) The meaning / grammar of ~も in 今になっても.

Here, 「も」 means "even". 「今になっても」 means "even now", "even at this point", etc.

2) The meaning / grammar of ~さま part at the end of the sentence. As I know ~さま is added to the names at the end when you addressing to someone in official language.

This 「さま」 has nothing to do with the honorific 「様{さま}」 as in 「田中和夫{たなかかずお}様」 and that should be clear from the context this time.

「さま」 here means the "state", "situation", etc. More specifically, it refers to "the way something/someone is or someone does something (and how it looks)".

Thus, the phrase means:

"the state/situation where something has not become a reality even now (as of now)"

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