internalize

Example Sentences

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But good intentions can harden into dogma, and instead of helping people work through conflicted feelings, practitioners doubled down on the proposition that any desire for change was evidence of internalized harm.

From The Wall Street Journal

Here was my opportunity to show that I had internalized early lessons; to demonstrate my resolve.

From Barron's

Several sculptures are based on the form of the falcon—a creature that Mr. Puryear has seemingly internalized like an alter ego.

From The Wall Street Journal

The fallout from such portrayals, says DJ Ida, director of the National Asian Pacific Islander Mental Health Assn., is that families internalize societal fears about mental illness and mass shootings.

From Los Angeles Times

“You can very much internalize things right now and go to dark places pretty easily.”

From Los Angeles Times