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He’s just bracingly honest and notoriously wobbly when asked to verbalize the significance of everything and anything — from his poetically dense lyricism to the whole of his revered music career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

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

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

At regular intervals he volunteers context, explains what is spoken and verbalizes what is not — he essentially dispenses audio footnotes.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2022

One of them actually verbalizes this, but it’s pretty far into the game,

From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2021

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

"Hey Congresspeople! Beware! Hell hath no fury like a . . . scorned," he adds, making a cutesy little face where one guesses an expletive would have otherwise been verbalized.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2023

In “Happiness Falls,” she makes it clear that joy needn’t always be verbalized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

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

Do you feel a little better now that we’ve verbalized some things that you were unsure of or unwilling to talk about?

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper

If you need help verbalizing your rights, show the agent a Red Card that helps explain your rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025

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

Most Date Lab participants when pressed have a difficult time verbalizing why the spark didn’t manifest.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022

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