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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

Under my leadership, this council won’t externalize our policymaking authority.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

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

The trick, then, was to try to find new ways to externalize that drama for a modern TV audience, as he imagined Rice might have wanted.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 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

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 wrong belief which externalizes as sickness is the belief that some secondary cause, which is really only a condition, is a primary cause.

From The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

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

In “Ikiru,” the great Takashi Shimura externalized his character’s desperation with enormous, wide-open eyes and a drooping stare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

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

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

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

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

The order of training is, then, generally, to modify our self-consciousness by externalizing our thoughts and broadening our interests; specifically, to eliminate the unduly insistent habit of thought.

From Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton