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actualize

[ak-choo-uh-lahyz] / ˈæk tʃu əˌlaɪz /
VERB
make real
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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“Interstate conflict is only intensifying, and data is the first shot across the bow for how to actualize that conflict,” she added.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

It is always worth the effort to actualize them.

From Slate ● May 13, 2023

One of the reasons fitness culture becomes an American export globally is because it’s such a perfect arena to actualize these fantasies about self-fashioning that we have.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Hylomorphism the idea that being is composed of matter and form that causes the being to actualize its potential.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

The business of the monologuist is to make an appeal to the imagination of the audience so vivid that the imagination of the audience can actualize the suggestion.

From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts

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

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

How one actualizes the result of thinking, and being authentic with one's self recalls what Jung said about art.

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson

Finally, it is pointed out that since existence is the actuality of essence, the existence which actualizes a substance cannot be identical with that which actualizes an accident.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

Your ambition, your agency, and your will, amplified and actualized by a dedicated, symbiotic intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 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

Rose's best season was when she went to Paris, leaving behind her husband with his learned helplessness and grandchildren in order to find herself, to latently be actualized.

From Salon ● May 13, 2023

The suit was designed by Ryan Meinerding at Marvel and actualized by Carter, who made some tweaks to ensure it looked right on a female body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

What is shown in the pictures upon a preceding page has been actualized in many homes.

From With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul by Sylvanus Stall

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

“In other words, actualizing a just and equitable educational system.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022

Supervsn is actualizing these things that don’t currently exist and having the ability to bring them to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021

Previously theoretical concerns about nuclear technology were actualizing as undeniable threats to humanity.

From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 2017

What one lives in his invisible, thought world, he is continually actualizing in his visible, material world.

From In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Ralph Waldo Trine




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