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verbalize

[vur-buh-lahyz] / ˈvɜr bəˌlaɪz /


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“I can be more daring in English. I can say the words or verbalize the thoughts with much less inhibition, because I am not as emotionally attached,” he explains.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

“If you’re able to intellectualize that information and verbalize, this isn’t for you,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 22, 2025

Guilt and shame can make these experiences difficult to verbalize or talk about, Mathai said.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2025

The trauma was often too much for them to verbalize.

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2023

The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

When he talks, Parsons seems to be unraveling his thoughts as he verbalizes them.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

At one point while recording notes, in a moment of particularly on-the-nose screenwriting, Kelley verbalizes “Someone could write a book” and off he dashes to the library with his German interpreter, a baby-faced U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 6, 2025

One of them actually verbalizes this, but it’s pretty far into the game,

From Washington Times Apr. 14, 2021

The philosopher Alva Noë, in voice-over, verbalizes questions that might be going through an audience member’s head, like: “Why are they doing that?”

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2018

He verbalizes it, and the sound of his own voice re-enforces it in him.

From Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper

And it is, of course, odd that they verbalized these fears by simply importing wholesale a hacky discourse from the U.S.

From Slate Jan. 5, 2025

"Hey Congresspeople! Beware! Hell hath no fury like a . . . scorned," he adds, making a cutesy little face where one guesses an expletive would have otherwise been verbalized.

From Salon Dec. 15, 2023

Those flickering observations, verbalized or not, can set the parameters of social engagement and hierarchy.

From Washington Post Feb. 8, 2023

By that point, I had already verbalized to my siblings that I liked boys.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2022

Do you feel a little better now that we’ve verbalized some things that you were unsure of or unwilling to talk about?

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper

If you need help verbalizing your rights, show the agent a Red Card that helps explain your rights.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 2025

Only 81 out of the 100 survey respondents provided a definition, perhaps due to the challenge of verbalizing a working description.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2024

And that’s precisely what art history is — taking the visual and verbalizing it.

From New York Times Mar. 6, 2024

“I can’t emphasize how hard that is for little people who may not be verbalizing letter sounds correctly — those are all just huge components to reading instruction,” she said.

From Seattle Times Aug. 13, 2022

But they did not talk about it, as though verbalizing it would make Baby’s death imminent, until the morning she sat watching Baby sleep while Odenigbo got dressed for work.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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