actualize

Example Sentences

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It is always worth the effort to actualize them.

From Slate • May 13, 2023

One of the reasons fitness culture becomes an American export globally is because it’s such a perfect arena to actualize these fantasies about self-fashioning that we have.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Aristotle proposed the theory of hylomorphism, which states that form is actually present in the material world and responsible for causing the acorn to actualize its potential as an oak tree.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

At the dinner table, I hoped that my silent tribute would actualize my strength.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2022

Thus do we actualize what we have always claimed—in the hour of danger we do not desert our Fatherland!

From New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? by Various