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concretize

[kon-kruh-tahyz, kong-, kon-kree-tahyz, kong-, kuhn-, kuhng-] / ˈkɒn krəˌtaɪz, ˈkɒŋ-, kɒnˈkri taɪz, kɒŋ-, kən-, kəŋ- /




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

From Washington Post Apr. 14, 2023

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

Ms. Posenenske’s objects concretize Duchamp’s idea that the viewer completes the artwork.

From New York Times Aug. 9, 2010

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

From Seattle Times Sep. 15, 2023

What does it mean, then, to view buildings not just as a concretized form of money but concretized beliefs about money?

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive




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