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
“You can’t intellectualize it. It hurt me.”
From Seattle Times
No. It’s not something that we intellectualize.
From Los Angeles Times
“I could intellectualize it to no end,” Kasdan said.
From New York Times
I have perhaps felt a need to intellectualize all of this to avoid coming to terms with an embarrassing truth, which is that my first favorite song — yes, me, a person who grew up to be a professional music critic — is a song hated so vehemently by some people that its own Apple Music catalog description admits that it regularly shows up on “worst song” lists.
From New York Times
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