externalize
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“The economic pain is worse, but Iran has found a way during the course of the war to externalize that pain,” Batmanghelidj said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Under my leadership, this council won’t externalize our policymaking authority.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
Flahive: There’s something about being forced to externalize things and literalize things that actually made certain things feel bigger in a way that was exciting and allowed you to be a little bit more playful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
It’s a fun, flashy role for Carpenter, but it does little dramatically except to rehash Dexter’s past torments and manically externalize his inner state, which is already amply told-not-shown through the series’s voice-over.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
“That’s what I mean. You have to tell me everything, externalize it all for me, so I can write it.”
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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Phthalate exposure is just one way the plastics industry externalizes harms.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
The chimera, as Diel writes, externalizes a certain danger, “in the form of a monster encountered by chance,” that “chimerical enemy” that “every man carries secretly within himself ... the devouring monster.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
The genre externalizes our anxieties and allows us to exorcise their manifestations onscreen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2017
He externalizes blame and sees himself as wronged.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2016
The Greeks trusted to nature, trusted the natural propensity of the mind, trusted language above all, in so far as it naturally externalizes thought.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
However, the moment the democracy debate becomes externalized, many Indians become irritated and end up closing ranks against “outsiders.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
Migration control “is almost completely externalized to Tunisia,” Megerisi said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
In “Ikiru,” the great Takashi Shimura externalized his character’s desperation with enormous, wide-open eyes and a drooping stare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
When I needed to, I externalized my reasons—how it would upend the lives of my husband, my family, my friends.
From Slate ● May 18, 2022
Here was her humanity externalized, and all her longing—for freedom, from disgust, from the confines of her metal cage.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Much of the current research focuses on depression, while other important outcomes such as anxiety, stress, externalizing behaviors, self-esteem and aggression have received far less attention.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026
“A Fantastic Woman” is still a movie that is externalizing a trans experience, because why is she a fantastic woman?
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025
How do we avoid forms of tourism that can advertise low prices because they are exploiting workers, using the dirtiest fuel available, and externalizing the costs of pollution?
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
She does so by externalizing the book’s subtle allusions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
He now sees that the point which really demands his earnest attention is not whether he possesses the power of externalizing any results he chooses, but of learning to choose wisely what results to produce.
From The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward
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