internalize

Example Sentences

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In my teenage years I internalized some of that spite.

From Los Angeles Times

“You start internalizing a lot of the insecurity and doubt about your place in the room. I’m constantly questioning, like, do I deserve the space I’m taking up? Do I deserve this audience?”

From New York Times

Though Egyptian critics of the show have denied any racist motives, some Egyptian commentators say their society’s internalized racism and inferiority complexes turned up the volume of the Cleopatra outcry.

From New York Times

And “girls are more likely to respond to pain in the world by internalizing conflict and stress and fear, and boys are more likely to translate those feelings into anger and aggression,” masking their depression.

From Washington Post

The superego is an internalized authority that at once holds us to a standard we are incapable of meeting and punishes us for our deficiencies.

From Washington Post