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

"The agribusiness system has relied on the ability to externalize these costs to downstream communities," said Tom Zimnicki, the Agricultural & Restoration Policy Director for the Alliance for the Great Lakes.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2022

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

“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