actualize

Example Sentences

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“Interstate conflict is only intensifying, and data is the first shot across the bow for how to actualize that conflict,” she added.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2024

It is always worth the effort to actualize them.

From Slate • May 13, 2023

I haven’t figured that out yet when pitching a show or getting venture capitalists to give me tens of millions of dollars to actualize it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2022

For example, if the purpose of human life is to develop meaningful relationships and to actualize one’s potential, then morality is based on the virtues that allow someone to achieve these ends.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

We have seen now that in the real order the potential presupposes the actual; for the potential cannot actualize itself, but can be actualized only by the action of some already actual being.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter