concretize

“She wrote these wonderful books of heightened reality and magical worlds where she would concretize metaphor.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

But I thought, That’s good, because what he was really saying is: Don’t concretize the song and its lyrics.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

By 1979, the Dead Kennedys frontman, Jello Biafra, ran for mayor as the only progressive alternative to Feinstein, helping the punk concretize San Francisco’s reputation as a progressive political and cultural city.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2020

I wonder how you concretize what you’re saying and help folks who are struggling to understand.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019

It’s also notably graceful in its ability to concretize the abstract and loosen the concrete.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2012

Meloni called for the accord to be concretized and the promised EU funds transferred to Tunis.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

That last idea concretized in a mystery surrounding an underground society revealed in season 2 known as the Order of X, personified in the form of the series’ all-seeing narrator played by Giancarlo Esposito.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2019

The word “pogrom,” which Kishinev concretized, “was believed to capture accurately centuries of Jewish vulnerability, the deep well of Jewish misery,” Zipperstein writes.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018

The whole show is a concretized metaphor for loss; its business is the ways that people accommodate or fail to accommodate it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2014

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026