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externalize

[ik-stur-nl-ahyz] / ɪkˈstɜr nlˌaɪz /


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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

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

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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