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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

“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

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 this way you set into operation vibratory forces which go out and which make their impress felt somewhere, and which, arousing into activity or uniting with other forces, set about to actualize your desires.

From In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Trine, Ralph Waldo




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