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actualize

[ak-choo-uh-lahyz] / ˈæk tʃu əˌlaɪz /
VERB
make real
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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You must have the capacity to put these ideas into action, to actualize them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

“It wasn’t as much solving this like, master plan or whatever. It was moreso helping him actualize the things that he was seeing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

And that is how people who should know better, like my colleague, can confidently dismiss concerns that these doom-filled stories might actualize.

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

We should strive constantly to actualize the ideal we perceive.

From Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

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

How one actualizes the result of thinking, and being authentic with one's self recalls what Jung said about art.

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson

If, however, it be a form by virtue of a part of itself, then we call that part the soul: and that matter, which it actualizes first, we call the "primary animate."

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

And morality, in that it is the realization of an ideal which is perfect, is the process whereby the absolute good actualizes itself in man.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones

Your ambition, your agency, and your will, amplified and actualized by a dedicated, symbiotic intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Now that it’s actualized, I’m just excited to share it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

“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

To suggest so implies that women weren't real before they got pregnant, weren't actualized or already complete.

From Salon ● May 14, 2023

Of their very nature they are held to be such that they cannot be actualized or actually exist in isolation, but only in union.

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

Where effort to translate ideals into realities is met by a barrier of official indifference, it is not strange if men give their time to dreaming rather than actualizing their visions.

From Prowling about Panama by George A. Miller


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