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actualize

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


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You must have the capacity to put these ideas into action, to actualize them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

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

In this way we come into possession of a power whereby we can actualize at all times those conditions that we desire.

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

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

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

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

“Unfortunately, in them the liability was actualized, but this does not make them someone different.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

They will be really distinct when found actualized in distinct individuals.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

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

Congress is one step closer to actualizing transformative antitrust reform for the tech industry after sending their most viable bill to the Senate floor.

From The Verge ● Jan. 20, 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

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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