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actualize

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


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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 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

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

To become, to develop, to actualize by reaction against the natural and moral environment, is the meaning both of the self and of the world it works upon.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir

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

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

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

The abstract concept of existence is rendered definite and determinate by the essence which it actualizes.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

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

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

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

Conceptualization of these qualities by practicing nurses is basic and necessary to the development of a science and an actualized profession of nursing.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

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

It won for choreography, honoring Sergio Trujillo’s extraordinary work of actualizing the Temptations’ silky-smooth moves and stylishly synchronized swagger.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2022

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

From Seattle Times Mar. 14, 2022

“It’s just now a matter of actualizing them and prioritizing them,” she said.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2021

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 Trine, Ralph Waldo




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