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actualize

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


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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

It is always worth the effort to actualize them.

From Slate • May 13, 2023

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

In a completely favorable environment we should not struggle to exist, we should simply exist; we should not will to live, we should simply live, i.e., we should actualize our potentialities and die.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.




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