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externalization

[ik-stur-nl-uh-zay-shuhn] / ɪkˌstɜr nl əˈzeɪ ʃən /


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The production design is excellent, the humorous details of Vision’s metaphorical manse and the externalization of computer processes clever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Despite its contradictory history as a symbol of democracy built by enslaved people, it is a blameless externalization of America.

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025

“It’s the first externalization of Aisha’s interior conflict,” said the movie’s writer and director, Nikyatu Jusu, in this video.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

In screenwriting, though, externalization is everything, and her characteristic restraint was her signal contribution to the other great triangle of her life: Jhabvala, Merchant, Ivory.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018

If these catalogs were employed for self-examination, confusion, endless torment, or complete externalization of the consciousness of sin was bound to result.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente


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