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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

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

During the action, it externalizes physical capabilities, but also intellectual qualities: self-control, coordination, planning.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

That trick relies on incalculable losses that can be externalized from the financial arithmetic, but not from the world itself.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022

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

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

This helped him to come to grips with the seismic turns his life was taking and also, by externalizing them, to release some anxiety about them.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023

If the worrier has an altruistic turn he will find satisfaction in bestowing duplicates upon his friends, thus still further externalizing his interests.

From Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton