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internalize

[in-tur-nl-ahyz] / ɪnˈtɜr nlˌaɪz /
VERB
incorporate within one's self
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The result, she said, is that consumers may internalize economic anxiety more intensely than they did during earlier periods of high inflation.

From Barron's May 27, 2026

To predict them accurately, the system has to internalize what coherent thinking looks like.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

Bird designed tools to help the kids budget, and holds weekly money meetings to check in and reinforce the ideas she hopes her children, now 11, 9 and 8 years old, will internalize.

From MarketWatch Apr. 4, 2026

“When young voices, and voices from marginalized communities tend to be silenced, sometimes we internalize that and silence ourselves,” Valenzuela said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 9, 2026

I hope that George doesn’t internalize her scare tactics.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

Guided by previous research of spider brains, the scientists uncovered evidence of a "waste canal system" in the human brain that internalizes waste from healthy neurons.

From Science Daily Dec. 3, 2024

Jean-Baptiste plays a woman who doles out misery and also, crucially, internalizes it, giving the character a humanity and sadness that’s absolutely transcendent.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2024

He only internalizes the doubt enough to let it fire him up.

From Seattle Times Feb. 8, 2024

Collins Jr. internalizes Jackson's emotions as he absorbs everything from a doctor's remarks about his health to his interactions with Gabriel or Ruth.

From Salon Dec. 29, 2021

So in his family of origin man internalizes ideas of "right-wrong," "appropriate-inappropriate," "expected-unexpected."

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

If you grew up with this sound, you’ve internalized voices like this to a degree that you barely notice how they connect to rap and emo.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

This movie’s nail-biting, sorrowful power comes from what internalized destruction looks like.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

Once that rule is internalized, it spreads and becomes the new norm.

From Salon May 31, 2026

And we’re all learning, in real time, what happens when the resulting fury is internalized at a mass scale.

From Slate May 1, 2026

“And so, I don’t know. I think I internalized all of that.”

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

According to the authors, some cells may reduce their response by internalizing or breaking down GLP-1 receptors.

From Science Daily May 25, 2026

“It ignored the young patients who would be in her clinic, exposed to her speech, and susceptible to internalizing ideas that may scar them for life,” they wrote.

From Slate Apr. 9, 2026

Europe is moving toward internalizing security costs and building fiscal capacity.

From MarketWatch Feb. 17, 2026

“For Nvidia, the long-term risk isn’t just rival chips, but key customers like Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and others steadily internalizing more of the value chain,” Dalfovo said.

From Barron's Nov. 25, 2025

The song B-I-N-G-O is an excellent example in which to practice internalizing the pitch since the singer has to clap the rhythm and silently think the pitch in their head.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin



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