externalize

“The economic pain is worse, but Iran has found a way during the course of the war to externalize that pain,” Batmanghelidj said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The unnamed protagonist, known in the scripts as “M,” was so complexly drawn that Weisz is now struggling to externalize the experience of playing her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

"The agribusiness system has relied on the ability to externalize these costs to downstream communities," said Tom Zimnicki, the Agricultural & Restoration Policy Director for the Alliance for the Great Lakes.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2022

But there are certain people that become so frenzied around human beings that are compelled to externalize their inner life, and there’s a jealousy thing that drives people crazy.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2022

“That’s what I mean. You have to tell me everything, externalize it all for me, so I can write it.”

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

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

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024

As Irene’s tension mounts, the film externalizes it through other symbols: a loudly ticking grandfather clock, a pot of water boiling over and even her breaking a teapot at a midday social in her home.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2021

The genre externalizes our anxieties and allows us to exorcise their manifestations onscreen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2017

I realized this past summer that this friend is self-absorbed and externalizes blame, and that I tend to feel drained in her presence.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2017

Whoso fixes and externalizes, operates with natural materials, which he does not create, but combines and transforms.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

However, the moment the democracy debate becomes externalized, many Indians become irritated and end up closing ranks against “outsiders.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

Migration control “is almost completely externalized to Tunisia,” Megerisi said.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

When I needed to, I externalized my reasons—how it would upend the lives of my husband, my family, my friends.

From Slate ● May 18, 2022

He’s made a film where one man’s internal strife has been effectively externalized as an inescapable, picturesque purgatory.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022

Here was her humanity externalized, and all her longing—for freedom, from disgust, from the confines of her metal cage.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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 ● Oct. 9, 2025

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

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025

Research has long suggested a link between mothers' mental health during pregnancy and children's externalizing behaviors.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023

“Boeing has gleaned billions of dollars in profits over the past several decades partly through externalizing its waste disposal costs by dumping wastes into the Lower Duwamish River,” the Port said in its claim.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023

One of these days we may become quite proficient amateur naturalists, but this is only by the way; the real advantage to us has been the externalizing of our interests.

From Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton