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internalize

[in-tur-nl-ahyz] / ɪnˈtɜr nlˌaɪz /
VERB
incorporate within one's self
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The result, she said, is that consumers may internalize economic anxiety more intensely than they did during earlier periods of high inflation.

From Barron's May 27, 2026

Such adjustments can take months to internalize, which is why specific drills are prescribed to reinforce changes.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

“They are unavoidable. You cannot internalize them and let them chip away at your self-worth.”

From MarketWatch Feb. 28, 2026

“When young voices, and voices from marginalized communities tend to be silenced, sometimes we internalize that and silence ourselves,” Valenzuela said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 9, 2026

It’s one thing to carve the Psi symbol into the side of buildings and string up banners over porches, but to actually internalize the message?

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

It is a metaphor for how she internalizes the external gaze and starts self-objectifying.

From Salon Apr. 18, 2025

Guided by previous research of spider brains, the scientists uncovered evidence of a "waste canal system" in the human brain that internalizes waste from healthy neurons.

From Science Daily Dec. 3, 2024

He only internalizes the doubt enough to let it fire him up.

From Seattle Times Feb. 8, 2024

It’s how the system internalizes within myself and makes me hate myself.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 18, 2022

So in his family of origin man internalizes ideas of "right-wrong," "appropriate-inappropriate," "expected-unexpected."

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson

China’s AI labs have internalized this lesson with remarkable discipline.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

"Rigid and persistent symptoms, such as paranoid ideas or an internalized critical voice, may be stable but not very flexible prediction models," says Stänicke.

From Science Daily Jul. 1, 2026

This movie’s nail-biting, sorrowful power comes from what internalized destruction looks like.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

More than a decade into his political ascent, it’s remarkable how thoroughly the lesson of Donald Trump has been internalized by the apparatus around him.

From Salon May 18, 2026

It lacked the lyrical eloquence and the floating optimism of the Jeffersonian version because it was grounded in the palpable sense of contingency Adams had internalized over his long career.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“It ignored the young patients who would be in her clinic, exposed to her speech, and susceptible to internalizing ideas that may scar them for life,” they wrote.

From Slate Apr. 9, 2026

Europe is moving toward internalizing security costs and building fiscal capacity.

From MarketWatch Feb. 17, 2026

“For Nvidia, the long-term risk isn’t just rival chips, but key customers like Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and others steadily internalizing more of the value chain,” Dalfovo said.

From Barron's Nov. 25, 2025

And finally, harsh parenting was linked to children who had internalizing behaviors such as frequent crying and loneliness.

From Science Daily May 23, 2024

The song B-I-N-G-O is an excellent example in which to practice internalizing the pitch since the singer has to clap the rhythm and silently think the pitch in their head.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin



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