actualize
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“Interstate conflict is only intensifying, and data is the first shot across the bow for how to actualize that conflict,” she added.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
It is always worth the effort to actualize them.
From Slate ● May 13, 2023
I haven’t figured that out yet when pitching a show or getting venture capitalists to give me tens of millions of dollars to actualize it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
Aristotle proposed the theory of hylomorphism, which states that form is actually present in the material world and responsible for causing the acorn to actualize its potential as an oak tree.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
To become, to develop, to actualize by reaction against the natural and moral environment, is the meaning both of the self and of the world it works upon.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
What Refik’s work actualizes is flying through that dark galaxy of latent space and saying, ‘Nothing exists here, but what might exist here?’
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
This is simply further proof that 2022 is when Google actualizes years of laying the groundwork for a major wearables push.
From The Verge ● Apr. 25, 2022
And morality, in that it is the realization of an ideal which is perfect, is the process whereby the absolute good actualizes itself in man.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
Finally, it is pointed out that since existence is the actuality of essence, the existence which actualizes a substance cannot be identical with that which actualizes an accident.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
Thus if we conceive existence as a perfection it is restricted by the finite nature of the potentiality which it actualizes.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
These “mere mortals” are “so often mistaken” about actualized strivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Dorothy belts “Over the Rainbow” underneath newly actualized bluebirds and an impressively ominous sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
But "Father Figure's" central theme is the most actualized in a movie like "Babygirl."
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024
“That’s all fine and good, but what isn’t is that Peach is absolutely amazing and perfect in every way, completely actualized, and needs to learn nothing in the film,” Mr. Carrick says in the review.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
In recollecting and reflecting on perceptions and responses in all these extremes one becomes freer to select from within one's self the values to be chosen, actualized, and potentiated in one's nursing practice.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
More importantly, we ceded the idea that effective politics are a vehicle for connecting people to one another in service of actualizing a higher ideal of our lives and our surroundings.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024
“In other words, actualizing a just and equitable educational system.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Congress is one step closer to actualizing transformative antitrust reform for the tech industry after sending their most viable bill to the Senate floor.
From The Verge ● Jan. 20, 2022
“It’s just now a matter of actualizing them and prioritizing them,” she said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021
As I shall show in the sequel, movement towards an ideal, actualizing but never actualized, is for the poet the very nature of man.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
