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verbalize

[vur-buh-lahyz] / ˈvɜr bəˌlaɪz /


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So while Tartakovsky’s samurai is a man who only says as much as he must, Spear doesn’t verbalize his thoughts at all.

From Salon Feb. 1, 2026

It’s really hard to verbalize how I am feeling at this point.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2025

“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

“Then try to work with me and I’ll see if I can’t verbalize it a little for them.”

From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle

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

The philosopher Alva Noë, in voice-over, verbalizes questions that might be going through an audience member’s head, like: “Why are they doing that?”

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2018

He verbalizes it, and the sound of his own voice re-enforces it in him.

From Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper

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

Well, not quite . . . it’s writer Jamie Rhonheimer who verbalized the source of the first schism within the “Star Wars” congregation.

From Salon May 25, 2024

Those flickering observations, verbalized or not, can set the parameters of social engagement and hierarchy.

From Washington Post Feb. 8, 2023

But it was the first time I verbalized the crux of why I struggled with intimate relationships — I had been stuck in one energy pattern in my body.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2022

On my end, I realized something I'd never quite verbalized before: this had nothing to do with me.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

As one-third of the rap group Migos, Quavious Marshall rose to chart-topping prominence in the last decade by verbalizing hip-hop’s stickiest choruses and most satisfyingly inane ad-libs, mostly extemporaneously.

From New York Times Oct. 18, 2023

Most Date Lab participants when pressed have a difficult time verbalizing why the spark didn’t manifest.

From Washington Post Oct. 6, 2022

“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

But they did not talk about it, as though verbalizing it would make Baby’s death imminent, until the morning she sat watching Baby sleep while Odenigbo got dressed for work.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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