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externalize

[ik-stur-nl-ahyz] / ɪkˈstɜr nlˌaɪz /


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“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

For Rodrigo, music is a vehicle for “expressing those feelings that are really hard to externalize, or that you feel aren’t societally acceptable to externalize,” she told the New York Times.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2023

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

But, to externalize Irene’s internal thoughts and her sublimated identity, the movie makes what is suggested in the novel far more explicit.

From New York Times Nov. 19, 2021

“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

Gorbis also developed a “crooked mirror” that exaggerates patients’ distortions, which externalizes the distorted self-image.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2023

Berry externalizes Jackie’s depressive state through her shaky camera and desaturated color palette.

From New York Times Nov. 25, 2021

He externalizes blame and sees himself as wronged.

From Slate Jun. 28, 2016

The Greeks trusted to nature, trusted the natural propensity of the mind, trusted language above all, in so far as it naturally externalizes thought.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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

From New York Times Apr. 5, 2023

The son isn’t around, save the one behind the camera, a curious and affecting blend of narratively externalized guilt and filmmaking devotion that only deepens as the reality of her situation sinks in.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2022

With Coleman and women like her — and there are many women like her — it's more useful to think of externalized misogyny.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2022

These externalized costs are being incurred by the public sector, businesses and producers, consumers and future generations, the report argues.

From Washington Post Jul. 16, 2021

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

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

From Science Daily Nov. 16, 2023

Tradition is prime among the many wonderful, terrible traits that make us human, with no example externalizing this quite so well as the holiday meal.

From Salon Jun. 29, 2023

How do we avoid forms of tourism that can advertise low prices because they are exploiting workers, using the dirtiest fuel available, and externalizing the costs of pollution?

From Seattle Times Sep. 23, 2022

She does so by externalizing the book’s subtle allusions.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2022

When the entire aesthetic and externalizing process has been completed, when a beautiful expression has been produced and fixed in a definite physical material, what is meant by judging it?

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




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