externalize
Example Sentences
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Under my leadership, this council won’t externalize our policymaking authority.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024
We actually had to cut down quite a bit of the dialogue, the chatter, and so on, and externalize a lot of the interior emotions that Martha was feeling.
From The Verge • Jun. 5, 2022
Flahive: There’s something about being forced to externalize things and literalize things that actually made certain things feel bigger in a way that was exciting and allowed you to be a little bit more playful.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
It’s a fun, flashy role for Carpenter, but it does little dramatically except to rehash Dexter’s past torments and manically externalize his inner state, which is already amply told-not-shown through the series’s voice-over.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 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
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