externalize

Example Sentences

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“I’m really glad Chloé went with the more internalized ones because then it would just be two people externalizing,” Mescal says.

From Los Angeles Times

Cam’s confusion is represented by externalizing his inner voice into a double, “the angel on my shoulder and, honestly, sometimes the devil,” with whom he argues, like a difficult imaginary friend.

From Los Angeles Times

“A Fantastic Woman” is still a movie that is externalizing a trans experience, because why is she a fantastic woman?

From Salon

"The solution to some kind of environmental damage was simply externalized to somewhere else. It was shifted basically to the global south."

From Salon

Phthalate exposure is just one way the plastics industry externalizes harms.

From Salon