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verbalize

[vur-buh-lahyz] / ˈvɜr bəˌlaɪz /


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Forward Jake LaRavia said in the locker room that there felt like a “disconnect” on the team, but couldn’t verbalize more about how things had turned so suddenly.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 26, 2025

“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

Carolina at the window, feeling her scars, wanted to verbalize a memory, but couldn’t.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

When Young Master Johnson verbalizes his existential crisis, it’s a cringer: “There are no courses in college about how to be a hardworking, productive rich person.”

From Salon Oct. 22, 2016

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

From Naudsonce by Piper, H. Beam

The ensemble feels like a real, fractured unit that shares unspoken arrangements and lifelong knowledge of one another that doesn’t need to be verbalized to be understood.

From Salon Nov. 23, 2025

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

She refuses to believe her father can find happiness with anyone other than her mother and has verbalized this to others.

From Washington Post Mar. 22, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2022

How had she so quickly, so succinctly, verbalized everything he was feeling?

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

So have anger and a thirst for vengeance, which the country’s leaders are verbalizing in language that critics in Israel say often crosses the line into incitement.

From New York Times Nov. 15, 2023

“There’s a lot of accountability to verbalizing what you’re seeing, what you’re thinking,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 4, 2022

“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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