actualize

Example Sentences

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And that is how people who should know better, like my colleague, can confidently dismiss concerns that these doom-filled stories might actualize.

From Salon • Jul. 21, 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

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

There must therefore be an external agent, itself actual, to actualize a potential.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac