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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

For example, if the purpose of human life is to develop meaningful relationships and to actualize one’s potential, then morality is based on the virtues that allow someone to achieve these ends.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

We should strive constantly to actualize the ideal we perceive.

From Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

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 operative power must be an accident because the action which actualizes it, the “actus secundus,” is an accident.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

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

Thus if we conceive existence as a perfection it is restricted by the finite nature of the potentiality which it actualizes.

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

But "Father Figure's" central theme is the most actualized in a movie like "Babygirl."

From Salon Dec. 30, 2024

“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

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

This passive intellect is actualized through the Active Intellect, which is not a part of man at all, but is identified by Alexander with God.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

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

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

From Seattle Times Mar. 14, 2022

I’m looking forward to that because there’s tremendous interest in two of my projects, and I’m looking forward to actualizing those.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 27, 2020

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

From Thoughts I Met on the Highway by Ralph Waldo Trine




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