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
“Your head’s not for managing, reminding, prioritizing. You need to externalize all that.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
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
“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
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
It is the sight that externalizes the ‘meaty’ eye.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
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
In contrast, Joe imagines a rich inner life that he externalized in destructive ways.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 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
Goya’s private, internalized fears are externalized, transforming into intimate, vaguely satirical spectacle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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
Much of the current research focuses on depression, while other important outcomes such as anxiety, stress, externalizing behaviors, self-esteem and aggression have received far less attention.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026
Tradition is prime among the many wonderful, terrible traits that make us human, with no example externalizing this quite so well as the holiday meal.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2023
How do we avoid forms of tourism that can advertise low prices because they are exploiting workers, using the dirtiest fuel available, and externalizing the costs of pollution?
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
She does so by externalizing the book’s subtle allusions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
You are continually building, and so externalizing in your body conditions most akin to the thoughts and emotions you entertain.
From In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Ralph Waldo Trine
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