actualize
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As Hill described it last month, they weren’t so much “solving this master plan” with Sasaki as they were “helping him actualize the things” he was trying to do in his delivery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2025
And that is how people who should know better, like my colleague, can confidently dismiss concerns that these doom-filled stories might actualize as baseless.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
“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
You’ve made it possible for us to actualize our greatest dream.
From The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick
What Refik’s work actualizes is flying through that dark galaxy of latent space and saying, ‘Nothing exists here, but what might exist here?’
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
This is simply further proof that 2022 is when Google actualizes years of laying the groundwork for a major wearables push.
From The Verge ● Apr. 25, 2022
Only because it is action, and as such actualizes itself in a vast organization and in a huge movement, has it the conditions for determining the historical course of contemporary Italy.
From Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado by Various
It actualizes unity, spirituality, and eternity in the environment; it frees and enhances the life of the self.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Action formally actualizes or perfects the patiens: actio fit in passo.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
These “mere mortals” are “so often mistaken” about actualized strivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
The NBA has seen other second-comings, some invented and some actualized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
“That’s all fine and good, but what isn’t is that Peach is absolutely amazing and perfect in every way, completely actualized, and needs to learn nothing in the film,” Mr. Carrick says in the review.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Janice has never felt actualized as a human being.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023
Moreover when the nature itself acts immanently, the term of such action remaining within the agent itself to actualize or perfect it, some passive potentiality of the agent is being actualized.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
More importantly, we ceded the idea that effective politics are a vehicle for connecting people to one another in service of actualizing a higher ideal of our lives and our surroundings.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024
“In other words, actualizing a just and equitable educational system.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Congress is one step closer to actualizing transformative antitrust reform for the tech industry after sending their most viable bill to the Senate floor.
From The Verge ● Jan. 20, 2022
“It’s just now a matter of actualizing them and prioritizing them,” she said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021
The conception of the world, including all the phenomena of mind and matter, as the gradual self-manifestation or evolution of a potential being eternally actualizing itself, is a self-contradictory conception.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
