actualize
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But they nevertheless actualize Laura's words: Choosing flesh over immortality is to live and die, too.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2023
It is always worth the effort to actualize them.
From Slate ● May 13, 2023
Which leads back to your question — I haven’t figured out how to actualize getting the streamers or the studios or these networks to invest in the stories that I believe are valuable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
Aristotle proposed the theory of hylomorphism, which states that form is actually present in the material world and responsible for causing the acorn to actualize its potential as an oak tree.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In this way we come into possession of a power whereby we can actualize at all times those conditions that we desire.
From In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Ralph Waldo Trine
What Refik’s work actualizes is flying through that dark galaxy of latent space and saying, ‘Nothing exists here, but what might exist here?’
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
This is simply further proof that 2022 is when Google actualizes years of laying the groundwork for a major wearables push.
From The Verge ● Apr. 25, 2022
And morality, in that it is the realization of an ideal which is perfect, is the process whereby the absolute good actualizes itself in man.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
The abstract concept of existence is rendered definite and determinate by the essence which it actualizes.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
Only because it is action, and as such actualizes itself in a vast organization and in a huge movement, has it the conditions for determining the historical course of contemporary Italy.
From Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado by Various
These “mere mortals” are “so often mistaken” about actualized strivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
“That’s all fine and good, but what isn’t is that Peach is absolutely amazing and perfect in every way, completely actualized, and needs to learn nothing in the film,” Mr. Carrick says in the review.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Janice has never felt actualized as a human being.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023
American society had not bought into the idea that mind and body are connected, and that working on your body is part of being a fully actualized human.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Indeed, so far as we know, he would not even admit that such "thoughts of the Creator" as these might have been actualized in the natural course of events.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
More importantly, we ceded the idea that effective politics are a vehicle for connecting people to one another in service of actualizing a higher ideal of our lives and our surroundings.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024
Thinking about Henry “Box” Brown’s methodology, the box as a vehicle for him to get closer to actualizing his own freedom on his own terms.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Where are you now in your thinking about actualizing or putting this out in the world?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
“In other words, actualizing a just and equitable educational system.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Appreciating and valuing the effects of our actualizing selves as human beings, we must attest to our existential modes of nurse being; our inner mandate is: share.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson