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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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

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

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

“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

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

He externalizes blame and sees himself as wronged.

From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2016

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 solution to some kind of environmental damage was simply externalized to somewhere else.

From Salon ● May 3, 2024

Goya’s private, internalized fears are externalized, transforming into intimate, vaguely satirical spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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

But, Dargis wrote, Pitt’s “soulful, nuanced performance — which becomes incrementally more externalized and visible, as if McBride were shedding a false face — holds the film together even when it starts to fray.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 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

Much of the current research focuses on depression, while other important outcomes such as anxiety, stress, externalizing behaviors, self-esteem and aggression have received far less attention.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026

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

“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

“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

In polished, shiny wood, it was a representation in miniature of that poky exclusive Heaven he took about with him, externalizing it in all he did and planned, even in the grounds about the house.

From The Damned by Algernon Blackwood




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