verbalize
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So while Tartakovsky’s samurai is a man who only says as much as he must, Spear doesn’t verbalize his thoughts at all.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026
“If you’re able to intellectualize that information and verbalize, this isn’t for you,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Later, he added: “I’m just beyond shocked. It’s really hard to verbalize how I am feeling at this point.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
The trauma was often too much for them to verbalize.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
“Then try to work with me and I’ll see if I can’t verbalize it a little for them.”
From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
When he talks, Parsons seems to be unraveling his thoughts as he verbalizes them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
At one point while recording notes, in a moment of particularly on-the-nose screenwriting, Kelley verbalizes “Someone could write a book” and off he dashes to the library with his German interpreter, a baby-faced U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
One of them actually verbalizes this, but it’s pretty far into the game,
From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2021
The philosopher Alva Noë, in voice-over, verbalizes questions that might be going through an audience member’s head, like: “Why are they doing that?”
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
He verbalizes it, and the sound of his own voice re-enforces it in him.
From Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper
And it is, of course, odd that they verbalized these fears by simply importing wholesale a hacky discourse from the U.S.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025
Landi verbalized the objection at least one more time before the 60-second limit had expired.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
Well, not quite . . . it’s writer Jamie Rhonheimer who verbalized the source of the first schism within the “Star Wars” congregation.
From Salon ● May 25, 2024
She refuses to believe her father can find happiness with anyone other than her mother and has verbalized this to others.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
How had she so quickly, so succinctly, verbalized everything he was feeling?
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
Only 81 out of the 100 survey respondents provided a definition, perhaps due to the challenge of verbalizing a working description.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
As one-third of the rap group Migos, Quavious Marshall rose to chart-topping prominence in the last decade by verbalizing hip-hop’s stickiest choruses and most satisfyingly inane ad-libs, mostly extemporaneously.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
Without verbalizing a direct answer to the question.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
He was verbalizing it, that I have his full support and that we were going to figure this thing out, to right the ship, so to speak.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
But they did not talk about it, as though verbalizing it would make Baby’s death imminent, until the morning she sat watching Baby sleep while Odenigbo got dressed for work.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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