externalize
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“The economic pain is worse, but Iran has found a way during the course of the war to externalize that pain,” Batmanghelidj said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Under my leadership, this council won’t externalize our policymaking authority.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
Flahive: There’s something about being forced to externalize things and literalize things that actually made certain things feel bigger in a way that was exciting and allowed you to be a little bit more playful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
The premiere's opening scenes externalize this by showing the material beginning of Saul Goodman's finish, starting with a black and white cascade of ties that fade into color.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2022
“That’s what I mean. You have to tell me everything, externalize it all for me, so I can write it.”
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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Phthalate exposure is just one way the plastics industry externalizes harms.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
Berry externalizes Jackie’s depressive state through her shaky camera and desaturated color palette.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
The genre externalizes our anxieties and allows us to exorcise their manifestations onscreen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2017
I realized this past summer that this friend is self-absorbed and externalizes blame, and that I tend to feel drained in her presence.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2017
Whoso fixes and externalizes, operates with natural materials, which he does not create, but combines and transforms.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
The production works best when the play’s expressionistic flourishes invite theatergoers to consider more deeply the subjective experiences and societal subtexts that are being externalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
However, the moment the democracy debate becomes externalized, many Indians become irritated and end up closing ranks against “outsiders.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
That trick relies on incalculable losses that can be externalized from the financial arithmetic, but not from the world itself.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022
Where a game's mission is external, drama series require interior growth externalized through its main character.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2022
Here was her humanity externalized, and all her longing—for freedom, from disgust, from the confines of her metal cage.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Cam’s confusion is represented by externalizing his inner voice into a double, “the angel on my shoulder and, honestly, sometimes the devil,” with whom he argues, like a difficult imaginary friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
“A Fantastic Woman” is still a movie that is externalizing a trans experience, because why is she a fantastic woman?
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025
Research has long suggested a link between mothers' mental health during pregnancy and children's externalizing behaviors.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023
This helped him to come to grips with the seismic turns his life was taking and also, by externalizing them, to release some anxiety about them.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
Rhyme is thus a form, an "externalizing" of rhythm.
From A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry
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