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exteriorize

[ik-steer-ee-uh-rahyz] / ɪkˈstɪər i əˌraɪz /


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Sanders has spent his life transposing heavy human thought into gusting human breath, but hearing him exteriorize a few casual brain waves this intimately might be what finally blows you clean out of your life.

From Washington Post Sep. 1, 2021

Fr�maux at first wanted to compose, but decided that it did not give him enough chance to "exteriorize myself."

From Time Magazine Archive

Says Francoise: "It forces me to exteriorize my sentiments, using only my voice, my eyes and my face."

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, if that spirit of homage within us is sincere, it will naturally seek to exteriorize itself; if it is to be preserved, it must "out."

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by Stapleton, John H. (John Henry)

He claims to have been able not merely to cause a hypnotized subject to exteriorize her astral self, but to mould this vapory substance as a sculptor models wax.

From The Shadow World by Garland, Hamlin

The interstitial world of texts, emails and social-media photographs, neither fully part of the material world nor fully within our own minds, acts as a kind of exteriorized collective imagination.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 30, 2025

Miranda’s ravaged inner life is exteriorized as in the medieval genre of psychomachia in which virtue and vice wage a battle for the soul.

From Seattle Times Jul. 30, 2021

Somehow the internet has become this exteriorized imagination.

From Salon Jul. 16, 2018

The book, as a result, has a vague, detached, strangely exteriorized quality.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 30, 2014

Are these raps due to exteriorized vital force?

From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward

And these ways of exteriorizing the self hang together as the codes of a distinct subculture that has been meticulously cultivated, curated, and transmitted across generations—an heirloom of stylizations.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2018




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