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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

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

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

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

As Irene’s tension mounts, the film externalizes it through other symbols: a loudly ticking grandfather clock, a pot of water boiling over and even her breaking a teapot at a midday social in her home.

From New York Times Nov. 19, 2021

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 Croce, Benedetto

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

From Salon May 3, 2024

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

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

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 12, 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

How do we avoid forms of tourism that can advertise low prices because they are exploiting workers, using the dirtiest fuel available, and externalizing the costs of pollution?

From Seattle Times Sep. 23, 2022

“We’re externalizing the crimes that people do, blaming it on external factors instead of holding them responsible,” Corns said.

From Washington Post Nov. 2, 2021

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 Walton, George Lincoln




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