externalize
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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
“Your head’s not for managing, reminding, prioritizing. You need to externalize all that.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 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
“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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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
On the other hand, Turrell’s art externalizes light, and he can seem consummately American in offering such a literal and hedonistic version of transcendence.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
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
The production works best when the play’s expressionistic flourishes invite theatergoers to consider more deeply the subjective experiences and societal subtexts that are being externalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Migration control “is almost completely externalized to Tunisia,” Megerisi said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
This is the price tag of externalized costs and public subsidies.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 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
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
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“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
She does so by externalizing the book’s subtle allusions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
His motivation had been thalamic rather than cortical and he was having trouble externalizing it verbally.
From A Slave is a Slave by H. Beam Piper
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