actualize
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“Now how do I actualize it? How do I make it a film? And that’s the exciting and scary part. How do we make magic feel cultural?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
It is always worth the effort to actualize them.
From Slate ● May 13, 2023
One of the dreams of his life, the amelioration of the social condition of the working people, he found himself unable to actualize in any appreciable degree.
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
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
Thus if we conceive existence as a perfection it is restricted by the finite nature of the potentiality which it actualizes.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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
“Unfortunately, in them the liability was actualized, but this does not make them someone different.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
Rose's best season was when she went to Paris, leaving behind her husband with his learned helplessness and grandchildren in order to find herself, to latently be actualized.
From Salon ● May 13, 2023
But, having the human soul mainly in view, they disagree as to whether the substantial perfection of the specific nature can be actualized in different grades in different individuals.
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
