externalization
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Despite its contradictory history as a symbol of democracy built by enslaved people, it is a blameless externalization of America.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025
“A key feature we see common among mass killers is this externalization of blame,” Fridel said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
“It’s the first externalization of Aisha’s interior conflict,” said the movie’s writer and director, Nikyatu Jusu, in this video.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
In screenwriting, though, externalization is everything, and her characteristic restraint was her signal contribution to the other great triangle of her life: Jhabvala, Merchant, Ivory.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
The stutter, then, is merely the externalization of an exaggerated reflex of motor speech, exaggerated through the loss of the inhibitory action of a more or less weakened visualization process.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
