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actualize

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


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“It wasn’t as much solving this like, master plan or whatever. It was moreso helping him actualize the things that he was seeing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

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

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2024

“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

Moreover when the nature itself acts immanently, the term of such action remaining within the agent itself to actualize or perfect it, some passive potentiality of the agent is being actualized.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter




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