externalize

Example Sentences

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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

We actually had to cut down quite a bit of the dialogue, the chatter, and so on, and externalize a lot of the interior emotions that Martha was feeling.

From The Verge • Jun. 5, 2022

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