intellectualize
Example Sentences
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Nabers: Episode 6 is a step-out episode that allows us to intellectualize some of the stuff that we’ve seen in a way that we probably haven’t intellectualized before.
From Los Angeles Times
Years later when a therapist told me my tendency was to intellectualize my emotions, this specific incident popped up.
From Salon
He did not intellectualize or sentimentalize the game, or rationalize his love for it.
From Washington Post
“There’s a transcendent wonder in that. You can intellectualize it that way. But it’s also just fun, like, ‘Let’s put some dinosaurs in the movie.’
From Los Angeles Times
“That’s not the lane we go to. We try to intellectualize and come up with policy solutions.”
From New York Times
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