verbalize
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“If you’re able to intellectualize that information and verbalize, this isn’t for you,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
The trauma was often too much for them to verbalize.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
As soon as a child is able to verbalize their identity, they are capable of knowing it.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2023
But I also can’t verbalize why I feel so upset about this conversation and whenever I bring it up, he tells me that I’m dismissing his feelings.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2023
But by forcing you to verbalize that memory—to explain yourself—I separate you from those instincts.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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When he talks, Parsons seems to be unraveling his thoughts as he verbalizes them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
At one point while recording notes, in a moment of particularly on-the-nose screenwriting, Kelley verbalizes “Someone could write a book” and off he dashes to the library with his German interpreter, a baby-faced U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
One of them actually verbalizes this, but it’s pretty far into the game,
From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2021
When Young Master Johnson verbalizes his existential crisis, it’s a cringer: “There are no courses in college about how to be a hardworking, productive rich person.”
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2016
He verbalizes it, and the sound of his own voice re-enforces it in him.
From Naudsonce by Piper, H. Beam
And it is, of course, odd that they verbalized these fears by simply importing wholesale a hacky discourse from the U.S.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025
“Mr. Morris never verbalized an apology, and he was given multiple opportunities,” Ortega said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
"Hey Congresspeople! Beware! Hell hath no fury like a . . . scorned," he adds, making a cutesy little face where one guesses an expletive would have otherwise been verbalized.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2023
She refuses to believe her father can find happiness with anyone other than her mother and has verbalized this to others.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
How had she so quickly, so succinctly, verbalized everything he was feeling?
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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Only 81 out of the 100 survey respondents provided a definition, perhaps due to the challenge of verbalizing a working description.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
And that’s precisely what art history is — taking the visual and verbalizing it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
He was verbalizing it, that I have his full support and that we were going to figure this thing out, to right the ship, so to speak.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
“There’s a lot of accountability to verbalizing what you’re seeing, what you’re thinking,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
“Luck,” Jesse said, never one for excessive verbalizing about feelings.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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