internalize
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“When you start to struggle and you internalize … you find yourself going dark, and that’s a lonely place,” Roberts said Tuesday, before the Dodgers’ 7-6 win against the Rockies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
“I didn’t deeply internalize how difficult it would be to build a foundation AI lab like OpenAI and Anthropic and the fact that they needed huge investments from the supplier themselves.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
“They are unavoidable. You cannot internalize them and let them chip away at your self-worth.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026
It’s important to do your own research and internalize why you own a stock.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
Because there are a myriad of such variations, it’s difficult for most players to internalize even a small portion.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
“Jean-Baptiste plays a woman who doles out misery and also, crucially, internalizes it, giving the character a humanity and sadness that’s absolutely transcendent,” says Glenn Whipp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
He only internalizes the doubt enough to let it fire him up.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
So in his family of origin man internalizes ideas of "right-wrong," "appropriate-inappropriate," "expected-unexpected."
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
Ford has internalized the humanity of filmmakers like Mike Leigh, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Jim Jarmusch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Though Village People singer and songwriter Victor Willis has denied the queer interpretation of the song many times over, one of the people who hasn’t internalized that historical correction is Trump himself.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
I internalized my mother’s distress, experiencing her anxiety as my own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
When she finds out what Margo’s doing, her internalized shame at having worked at Hooters once upon a time resurfaces.
From Salon ● May 4, 2026
As much as I found Robbie to be snippy and inflexible, I’d also internalized her devotion to rigor.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Amazon, as it has grown, has built out its logistics capabilities, internalizing some of its shipping needs and offering services to its third-party sellers.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
“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
Even as I was coming out, I was still internalizing shame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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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